. The testimony of the rocks; . ASTARTE ARCTICA. TELUNA PHOXIMA. light by hundreds, on the spot evidently where the indi-viduals had lived and died. Under the severe climatalconditions to which (probably from some change in thedirection of the gulf stream) what is now Northern Eu-rope had been brought, this tellina and astarte had in-creased and multiplied until they became prevaiUng shellsof the British area; and this increase must have been theslow work of ages, during which the plains, and not a fewof the table lands, of the country, were submerged in asub-arctic sea, and Great Britain exis
. The testimony of the rocks; . ASTARTE ARCTICA. TELUNA PHOXIMA. light by hundreds, on the spot evidently where the indi-viduals had lived and died. Under the severe climatalconditions to which (probably from some change in thedirection of the gulf stream) what is now Northern Eu-rope had been brought, this tellina and astarte had in-creased and multiplied until they became prevaiUng shellsof the British area; and this increase must have been theslow work of ages, during which the plains, and not a fewof the table lands, of the country, were submerged in asub-arctic sea, and Great Britain existed as but a scatteredarchipelago of wintry islands. But in a still earlier period,of which there exists unequivocal evidence in the buriedforests of Happisburgh and Cromer, the country had notonly its head above water, as now, but seems to havepossessed even more than its present breadth of this ancient time,—more remote by many cen-turies than not only the times of the old coast-line, butthan even those of th
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