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doldrums and the " Roaring Forties " in Silurian or 

 Jurassic times, and, given certain land masses, there 

 would be monsoons. The earth's spherical shape, its 

 inclined axis, its rotation, in conjunction with solar heat, 

 cannot have failed to produce the same broad effects of 

 atmospheric circulation then as now. The view of the 

 starry heavens, too, at night, were there an eye to see 

 it, would, one may think, have much resembled its 

 present aspect — the Great Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, 

 and other constellations, redeeming the blackness of that 

 empty space at which Froude shuddered. It seems, 

 indeed, that the man of science, Astronomer, Geologist, 

 or Biologist, is also an Antiquarian, and that he goes 

 much further back in time than the antiquary of com- 

 mon parlance — his sight is keen for very far distances, 

 but the horizon which he then surveys reveals no 

 human element. It is but a question of degree, and the 

 Berwickshire Naturalist can suit his own tastes, either 

 focussing his gaze affectionately upon the foreground 

 with human figures in it, or directing it, cold and keen, 

 upon the distant landscape far beyond this range. 

 There is not, after all, a conflict or a diversity of studies 

 implied in our statement of aim — Natural History and 

 Antiquities. 



As a mere amateur of geology, with mental vision of 



short focus, unable without pain and diffi- 

 Lake culty to look very far backward in time, I 



Ewart. now beg with all modesty to oflfer you a 



few notes on a matter of quite recent 

 antiquity, if such a phrase may be allowed. And I 

 believe I am right in promising that there will be 

 human life within the field of telescopic view. In the 

 interval between the two Glacial Periods, evidence of 

 man's existence is, I believe, accepted, and gives him the 

 name Paleolithic. I do not, as an antiquary, go back 

 further than this. Let me invite you to take a voyage in 

 a roomy boat upon this Lake, first making its acquaintance, 



