Fossils. 
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These gaunt skeletons, these uncouth monsters, these 
petrified forests, are silent, lifeless, as the rocks within 
whose stony bosoms they have lain so long entombed. 
Fin. 12. Wentworth Falls, Blue Mountains, showing stratified 
locks of Triassie age. 
Had they speech and memory, they could tell us much, 
no doubt, of that ancient world in which the}' bore a 
part, of its continents, and seas, and rivers and moun- 
tains; of the various tribes of animals and plants by 
