56 BIO-GEOLOGY. 
As for the Atlantic flora, you will have to decide for youre | 
you accept or not the theory of a sunken Atlantic continen i -— 
that all objections to that theory, however astounding it ee ee - 
outweighed in my mind by a host of facts which I ys e 
other theory. But you must judge for yourselves, and to do s be Es 
study carefully the distribution of Heaths, both in Europe a 
: : ling - 
As for the Northern flora, the question where it came ju e e E 
enough. It seems difficult to conceive how any plants could hav 
4 : itiona$ 
when Scotland was an archipelago in the same ice-covered we T i 
Greenland is now ; and we here have no proof that there existe E1 
À : í nimals 
glacial epoch any northern continent from which the plants e «2 
could have come back to us. The species of plants vi: an e 
mou to Britain, Scandinavia, and North America adic yave Sp 
l 
Agr en erly | 
Physies-of the Arctic Ice," by Dr. Brown, of Campster, in Li Qu 
Journal of the Geological Society ’ for February, 1870. He shows | 
ine plants - 
and; if so, we may look with respect, even with awe, on the Alpine p 
of Wales, Scotland, and t 
i (ven c 
be, and even degraded, by their long battle with the elements, bu 
: older 
rable from their age, historie from their endurance. Relics of an 
temperate world, the 
and fog to. sun th 
ing a moorland or peat-loving vegetation in man 
] fas d, the 
of the county, in the Bagshot basin, as it is calle 
moors. of Aldershot fordbridge. 
variety o 
simple facts! How did these 
3 moorland soil, and We 3 
n, with a few singular exceptions, repeats itself, as I dare 2 
