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jaguar would haunt the Pyrenees. In the latitude of Mont 
Blanc, but on an island as far westward as central North America, 
tree-ferns and parasitical Orchideze would thrive amidst the thick 
woods. Even as far north as central Denmark, humming-birds 
would be seen fluttering about delicate flowers, and parrots feed- 
ing amidst the evergreen woods ; and in the sea there, we should 
have a Voluta, and all the shells of large size and vigorous 
growth. Nevertheless, on some islands only 360 miles northward 
of our new Cape Horn in Denmark, a carcass buried in the 
soil (or if washed into a shallow sea, and covered up with 
mud) would be preserved perpetually frozen. If some bold 
navigator attempted to penetrate northward of these islands, he 
would run a thousand dangers amidst gigantic icebergs, on some 
of which he would see great blocks of rock borne far away 
from their original site. Another island of large size in the 
latitude of southern Scotland, but twice as far to the west, would 
be “almost wholly covered with everlasting snow,” and would 
have each bay terminated by ice-cliffs, whence great masses 
would be yearly detached: this island would boast only of a 
little moss, grass, and burnet, and a titlark would be its only 
land inhabitant. From ‘our new Cape Horn in Denmark, a chain 
of mountains, scarcely half the height of the Alps, would run in 
a straight line due southward; and on its western flank every 
deep creek of the sea, or fiord, would end in “ bold and astonish- 
ing glaciers.” ‘These lonely channels would frequently rever- 
berate with the falls of ice, and so often would great waves rush 
along their coasts; numerous icebergs, some as tall as cathedrals, 
and occasionally loaded with “no inconsiderable blocks of rock,” 
would be stranded on the outlying islets; at intervals violent 
earthquakes would shoot prodigious masses of ice into the waters 
below. Lastly, some Missionaries attempting to penetrate a long 
arm of the sea, would behold the not lofty surrounding moun- 
tains, sending down thcir many grand icy streams to the sea- 
coast, and their progress in the boats would be checked by the 
innumerable floating icebergs, some small and some great; and 
this would have occurred on our twenty-second of June, and 
where the Lake of Geneva is now spread out !* 
* In the former edition and Appendix, I have given some facts on the 
transportal of erratic boulders and icebergs in the Antarctic Occan. This 
