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a meaning, that the existence of Alexander may 

 have been determined by the migration of the shell- 

 fish. If I am right in my interpretation of the 

 reason why we find the same species of periwinkle 

 in Greenland, and along the coast of Labrador, that 

 lives now also on the shores of Nordland and Fin- 

 mark, — in the unravelling of the cause and means 

 of its wanderings, we acquire a clue to the origin of 

 the peculiar physical conformation of the world as 

 it is, and to the disposition of those geographical 

 arrangements upon which the development of na- 

 tions and characters of men in a great measure 

 depend. 



