. The testimony of the rocks; . find locked up in the loess of theRhine, or amid the Hgnites of Nassau. America is em-phatically the Old World. If we accept, however, as soundthe ingenious logic by which Colton labors to show, in notinelegant verse, that the Moderns are the true Ancients^ wemay continue to term it the New World stUl. We that on these late days are thrownMust be the oldest Ancients known;The earliest Modern earth hath seenWas Adam in his apron lived when young Creation pealedHer morning hymn oer flood and field,Till all her infant offspring cameTo that great christenin
. The testimony of the rocks; . find locked up in the loess of theRhine, or amid the Hgnites of Nassau. America is em-phatically the Old World. If we accept, however, as soundthe ingenious logic by which Colton labors to show, in notinelegant verse, that the Moderns are the true Ancients^ wemay continue to term it the New World stUl. We that on these late days are thrownMust be the oldest Ancients known;The earliest Modern earth hath seenWas Adam in his apron lived when young Creation pealedHer morning hymn oer flood and field,Till all her infant offspring cameTo that great christening for a he that would the Ancients forward come, not backward go:The learned lumber of the shelvesShows nothing older than who in older times than weShall live? — That infant on the knee,—See sights to us were never shown,And secrets known to us unknown. HISTORY OF ANIMALS. 127 The group of mammals which, in Europe, at least, imme-diately preceded the human period seems to have been Fig. ELEPHAS PRIMIGENIUS. (Mammoth.) Great British Elephant,everywhere a remarkable one; and nowhere was it more so 128 THE PAL^ONTOLOGICAL than in the British islands. Our present mammaliferousfauna is rather poor; but the contents of the later depositsshow that we must regard it as but a mere fragment of avery noble one. Associated with species that still exist inthe less cultivated parts of the country, such as the badger, Ficr. 74.
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