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)'iltiiillill views, ;iiiil liriliiilis In incvclil nil illlililt' l(*il('ti<)ll 

 ill the (liicdiiiii iijipdsitc tn lliiit l;ilcly |»n'\al('iil. 



I Inisl I sliiili IKil Iw licensed (if e^ittisiii it' I |iiesrliL 

 these liindcrate \ iews, in the lilsl iijstjiiiee, in tlie I'dilii of 

 extniels i'rinii imlilieat i'liis ihiiiii^ some of tlieiii iieaily 

 tliiily yejirs ;i^o. 



Ill jl |i;i|ier imlilislied ill t lie " ( ';ili;idiilll X;it llVillisl " ill 

 liSliO, mid speeiiilly dcMileil lo the deseiipt ion of nlac-iiil 

 ]iheiioiiieii;i ill halinidor, Maine, eie., tlie follo\siii;,f words 

 (teelll' with refereliee liioi'e pail ielllaily to the ehliialeof 

 the I'leisloeeiie, and are here ,i;i\cii without aheration,* 



" K\('ryoiie knows that- the means and extremes of 

 annual teiiiiieratnre din'er luueli on the ojijiosiie sides of 

 llie Atlantic. The isothermal line of M) , for examplo, 

 glasses from the south side! of the j;ulf of St. Lawrence, 

 skirts Iceland and reaches l<;nr(»|ie near I)rontheiin in 

 Xorway. This fact, ..pparent as the result of ol)serviiLi()iis 

 on tli(( lemiierature of the land, is t'(|ually e\ idoiieed hy 

 the iiihahitants and i)hysieal plu'iiomeiia of the sea. A 

 lai;i;e proijovtion of the shell-lish inhahilinj^ the gulf of St. 

 Lawrenei! and the eoast thence to ("ape Coih oeeur on 

 hoth sides of the Atlantic, hut not in the .same latitudes. 

 The marine fauna of ("iii)e Cod is parallel in its prevalunco 

 of horoal forms with that of the .south of Xorway. In 

 like manner the dcseent of ieehergs from the nortli, the 

 freezing of hay.s and estuaries, the drifting and i)usliing of 

 stones and houlders hy ice, are witne.ssed on the American 

 coast in a manner not i)aralleled in eorrespoiiding lati- 

 tudes in Europe. It follows from this that a collection of 

 shells from any given latitude on the coasts of Europe or 



* Wlierc aiiytliiiig new is introiluccil into those exti'iict.s, it i.s placed 

 in brackuts, tluis,-- [ . . . ] 



