272 SKETCHES OF CREATION. 



the trees had been swept off — ignorant of the history that 

 had passed, and which was even then, as now, in very prog- 

 ress, and which was even then, as now, actually crowding 

 the forest upon the prairie, and bringing about the day 

 when, perhaps a thousand years hence, the prairies, like the 

 forests of Lancashire, will live only in history. 



