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stalked over the plains. The Gare Fowl, or Penguin of 
the north (Alca impennis), probably reared its young 
fattening them on the Caplin, which has been found fosei] 
in our clay-beds; and the smaller Auks, the Gannet, 
the Puffin, and Eider Duck filled air and water with their 
hosts. Through the waves, schools of Narwhales may have 
disported snd: waged war with that Bull-dog of the north- 
ern seas, the Kiler; ; while the Walrus and Greenland Seal 
thrust their half-dog,'half-human face above the waves, 
and with angry hark, crowded and jostled each other off 
the smooth-backed skiers skirting the coast. 
Did man gaze upon this scene? Did the forefathers 
of the Mound Builders or of the ancient Copper Miners 
of the Great Lakes ply these waters in their kayaks, 
aud build their winter huts of snow amid these arctic 
Scenes ? 
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An INQUIRY INTO THE ZOGLOGICAL RELATIONS OF THE FIRST DIS- 
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THE WINGS OF LIVING NEUROPTERA. By S. H. Scudder, From the 
Memoirs of the Boston Hot of Natural History. Vol. I. pp. 20, 
gto. 1867. With a pla 
_ The study of the fossil remains of insects is attended with ae 
difficulty. Indeed le’s is known, perhaps, of the Insect Fauna of 
former geological periods, than of most other classes of animals, with 
the exception of the worms and cave (acalephs). From the 
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present day, just as Cuvier restored the quadrupeds of the Paris Ba- 
~ delineating their often rude, embryonic forms, from hints afforded 
y pieces of bone and in some 
