360 Forest Bed. 



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true, it cannot fail to impress the reader as throwing 

 light on some one of the ever-shifting physical and 

 biological phases that our country has undergone, each 

 of which in its day seemed as constant as that in the 

 midst of which we live. The special episode of the 

 Forest bed points to this, that it exhibits a fragment 

 of the vegetation and fauna of the last pre-glacial epoch, 

 at a time when England was united to the Continent, 

 and when a flora and fauna, in part new, migrated across 

 the intervening plain into our area. 



