AGE OF MAN. 



589 



and beds of dead mussels were found on the rocks ten feet above 

 high-water mark. 



Fig. 847. 



Temple of Jupiter Serapis. 



Thus the earth, although in an important sense finished, is un- 

 dergoing changes from paroxysmal movements and prolonged 

 oscillations. The changes, while more restricted than in the ages 

 of progress, are yet the same in kind. 



