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LIFE OF DEAN BUCK LAND. 
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have sent an artist to daguerrotype them.” Among the many 
diagrams and drawings left by him to Oxford University 
is an interesting sketch of the primitive habitation—a block 
of schist on the great moraine—in which Agassiz lived on 
the Aar glacier. It was known in the scientific world by 
the name of “L’Hotel des Neuchatelois,” and on the sketch 
Buckland has written the words “ Given me by Agassiz.” 
Buckland’s championship of the glacial theory was the 
subject of a poetic a Dialogue between Dr. Buckland and 
a Rocky Boulder,” written by his friend Philip Duncan. 
The following are the lines :— 
“Buckland, loquitur . 
“Say when, and whence, and how, huge Mister Boulder, 
And by what wondrous force hast thou been rolled here? 
Has some strong torrent driven thee from afar, 
Or hast thou ridden on an icy car? 
Which, from its native rock once torn like thee, 
Has floundered many a mile throughout the sea, 
And stranded thee at last upon this earth, 
So distant from thy primal place of birth ; 
And having done its office with due care, 
Was changed to vapour, and was mixed in air. 
“ Boulder, respondit . 
Thou great idolater of stocks and stones, 
Of fossil shells and plants and buried bones ; 
Thou wise Professor, who wert ever curious 
To learn the true, and to reject the spurious, 
Know that in ancient days an icy band 
Encompassed around the frozen land, 
Until a red-hot comet, wandering near 
The strong attraction of this rolling sphere, 
Struck on the mountain summit, from whence torn 
Was many a vast and massive iceberg borne, 
