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It has often and justly been remarked, that what strikes a candid student of Mr. He tried all manner of circular orbits for the earth and for Mars, placing them in all sorts of aspects with respect to the sun. He offered me into the hundreds if I would let him take the collie back with him. The field, moreover, is the only open lot in this part of the town. Professor Huxley lectured on this hypothesis and partially upheld it not many years since. It may be useful if I endeavour to give the reader in a few words some idea of the nature of the evidence of these important conclusions, to show how far they may be safely based on fossil leaves alone. Their records remain in old horizontal beach lines which they drew along their mountainous shores at the different levels at which they stood, and in the deposits of their beds.