. The testimony of the rocks; . SIGILLARIA GEOESEBI (Coal Measures.) leaves, similar to those into which the Roman architectsfretted the torus of the Corinthian order. The Sigillaria 256 GEOLOGY IN ITS BEARINGS were fluted columns ornately carved in the line of 1J ^channelled flutes; the Lepidodendra bore, according totheir ispecies, sculptured scales, or lozenges, or egg-likehollows, set in a sort of frame, and relieved into knobs andfarrows; all of them furnishing examples of a delicatediaper work, like that so admired in our more ornateGothic bmldings, such as Westminster Abbey, or Canter-

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