Madam How and Lady Why; or, First lessons in earth lore for children . he rain have made strange workwith the poor old world ever since. And that isabout all that we, who are not very much wiser thanShakespeares fool, can say about the matter. Butagain—the London Pride grows here, and so doesanother saxifrage very like it, which we call SaxifragaGeum. Now, when I saw those two plants growingin the Western Pyrenees, between Prance and Spain,and with them the beautiful blue butterwort, whichgrows in these Kerry bogs—we will go and find some—?what could I say but thatSpain and Ireland must havebe
Madam How and Lady Why; or, First lessons in earth lore for children . he rain have made strange workwith the poor old world ever since. And that isabout all that we, who are not very much wiser thanShakespeares fool, can say about the matter. Butagain—the London Pride grows here, and so doesanother saxifrage very like it, which we call SaxifragaGeum. Now, when I saw those two plants growingin the Western Pyrenees, between Prance and Spain,and with them the beautiful blue butterwort, whichgrows in these Kerry bogs—we will go and find some—?what could I say but thatSpain and Ireland must havebeen joined once ? I suppose it must be so. Again. There is a littlepink butterwort here in thebogs, which grows, too, indear old Devonshire andCornwall; and also in thesouth - west of , when I found that too,in the bogs near Biarritz,close to the Pyrenees, andknew that it stretched awayalong the Spanish coast, andinto Portugal, what couldmy common sense lead meto say but that Scotland,and Ireland, and Cornwall,and Spain were all joined 220 MADAM HOW AND LADY WHY chap. once ? Those are only a few examples. I could giveyou a dozen more. For instance, on an island awaythere to the west, and only in one spot, there grows alittle sort of lily, which is found I believe in Brittany,and on the Spanish and Portuguese heaths, and evenin North-west Africa. And that Africa and Spainwere joined not so very long ago at the Straits ofGibraltar there is no doubt at all. But where did the Mediterranean Sea run out then ? Perhaps it did not run out at all; but was a salt-water lake, like the Caspian, or the Dead Sea. Perhapsit ran out over what is now the Sahara, the great desertof sand, for that was a sea-bottom not long ago. But then, how was this land of Atlantis joined tothe Cape of Good Hope? I cannot say how, or when either. But this isplain: the place in the world where the most beautifulheaths grow is the Cape of Good Hope ? You know Ishowed you Cape heaths
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