In no
other part of this continent are the wonders of geology, the records of
the world's auld lang syne, more widely opened, or displayed in higher
piles. The whole canon is a mine of fossils, in which five thousand feet
of horizontal strata are exposed in regular succession over more than a
thousand square miles of wall-space, and on the adjacent plateau region
there is another series of beds twice as thick, forming a grand geological
library--a collection of stone books covering thousands of miles of
shelving tier on tier conveniently arranged for the student. And with
what wonderful scriptures are their pages filled--myriad forms of
successive floras and faunas, lavishly illustrated with colored drawings,
carrying us back into the midst of the life of a past infinitely remote.
And as we go on and on, studying this old, old life in the light of the
life beating warmly about us, we enrich and lengthen our own.
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