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they now are. It is less probable that the 

 small streams which now exist in England 

 should have harboured herds of Hippopotami. 

 But the position in which the remains of 

 these great animals are found indicates that 

 since they flourished there have been con- 

 siderable changes in physical geography. It 

 indicates, too, that a great change of climate 

 has accompanied certain changes in the con- 

 figuration of land and sea. I know no better 

 example of the evidence to this effect than 

 one which is very easily accessible in our own 

 country. We have only to go down to the 

 pleasant shores of Devon, and to one of the 

 pleasantest spots upon those shores — the 

 south-western promontory of Torbay. Over- 

 hanging the little harbour of Brixham, where 



