CHAPTER IV. 
SUPERFICIAL DEPOSITS. 
Reasons for Separate Treatment. Effects of Causes now in 
Operation. Peat Bogs. White of Selborne. Evelyn. Tin 
Deposits of Cornwall. Ireland. Submarine Forests on Coasts 
of Normandy, Cornwall, and elsewhere. Connection between 
these Deposits and Extinct Races of Animals. 
“ To Thee, whose temple is all space. 
Whose altar, earth, sea, skies ; 
One chorus let all beings raise. 
All nature’s incense rise.” 
In the foregoing account we have omitted 
all mention of the fossils found in superfi¬ 
cial deposits. The epithets fossil ” and 
geological ” are frequently restricted to 
discoveries in the solid strata of the earthy 
exclusive of the covering of vegetable 
mould and alluvial beds. But in order to 
understand the value and nature of the 
