L. Lesquereux on the Coal Formations of the United States. 19 
ied—those of the other are more precise and so to speak, more 
applicable to our humanity. Because they speak a human lan- 
guage. They speak of atmospherical changes, of sun and of 
rain, of seasons and of their variations. They speak of shores 
battered by the waves and covered with floating debris, of hills, 
of green fields, of impenetrable forests, of everything that is now 
in the fullness of its perfection, belonging to the Eden slowly 
prepared for our abode. 
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point of emerging from the stems, vary in size and distance 
according to the age of the vegetable or the place on the trunk 
from which the st ecimen is taken. oreover, the cicatric 
have various forms following the process of decortication of the 
* T thay, j f this species with branches and leaves ; 
one found ge Bia ce pa to a Mr. Bunbury saw for the first 
time such a specimen in the cabinet of Mr. Brown of Nova Scotia, 
