THE SILURIAN BEACH. 
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of Aristotle towards them, the science of Palae- 
ontology would not have w r aited for its founder 
till Cuvier was horn, — in short, in every corner 
of the earth where the investigations of civilized 
men have penetrated, from the Arctic to Patago- 
nia and the Cape of Good Hope, these relics tell 
us of successive populations lying far behind our 
own, and belonging to distinct periods of the 
world’s history. 
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