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could not expect to live more than ten years, because of some 

 forecast by an eminent man as to seventy-five years being his 

 limit of age. It came as no surprise to hear that this master in 

 the realm of geology and physiography, this teacher revered 

 and beloved by his disciples, this man of the broad sympathies 

 and of the great heart, had passed away shortly after believing 

 that at a time when his maximum effort was needed in the 

 cause of humanity he had passed his zenith and had entered 

 instead upon his days of ''splendid decadence." 



Geological Survey, Department of Mines, 

 Sydney, N. S. W. 



The mind opens with the enlarging day. 

 It is said the sand-hills of the desert under the noon- 

 day sun emit strange sounds; that the rocky valleys are vocal; 

 theprijneval forest speaks in its depths; hollow ocean sends 

 a muttering to the becalmed vessel; and up in the 

 mountains the bound words are set loose. Of 

 old times the huntsmen in our own woods 

 met the noon-day spirit under 

 the leafy canopy. 



RICHARD JEFFERIES 



