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bad. He did not believe that women ever would be good ; 

 and the English allowing their wives to gad about with 

 faces uncovered, only showed their weakness, ignorance, 

 and unwisdom. 



The tendency" and spirit of the age are more and more 

 towards the undertaking of industrial enterprises of such 

 magnitude and skill as to require the capital of the world 

 for their support and execution — as the Pacific Eailroad, 

 Suez Canal, Mont Cenis Tunnel, and railways in India 

 and Western Asia, Euphrates Eailroad, &c. The extension 

 and use of railroads, steamships, telegraphs, break down 

 nationalities and bring peoples geographically remote into 

 close connection commercially and politically. They make 

 the world one, and capital, like water, tends to a common 

 level. 



[Geologists will be glad to find that the Doctor took 

 2)ains to arrange his observations at this time in the fol- 

 lowing form.] 



A really enormous area of South Central Africa is 

 covered with volcanic rocks, in which are imbedded 

 angular fragments of older strata, possibly sandstone, 

 converted into schist, which, though carried along in the 

 molten mass, still retain impressions of plants of a low 

 order, probably the lowest — Silurian — and distinct ripple 

 marks and raindrops in which no animal markings have 

 yet been observed. The fewness of the organic remains 

 observed is owing to the fact that here no quarries arc 

 worked, no roads are made, and as we advance north the 

 rank vegetation covers up everything. The only stone 

 buildings in the country north of the Cape colony are the 

 church and mission houses at Kuruman. In the walls there the 

 fragments, with impressions of fossil leaves, have been broken 

 through in the matrix, once a molten mass of lava. The 



