. The first [-fifth] reader of the school and family series. on a mountain three thousand feet high, and the skeleton ofan elephant has been exhimied from the frozen sand and mudon the very confines of the Frozen Sea. But, what is morewonderful still, whole mountains, hundreds and even thou-sands of feet high, are essentially composed of organic re-mains. 8. Such is the character of the language which the geolo-gist must learn before he can read the curious history of theearth, and of the animal and vegetable races that have livedupon it. A very accurate and extensive knowledge of zoolo-gy and
. The first [-fifth] reader of the school and family series. on a mountain three thousand feet high, and the skeleton ofan elephant has been exhimied from the frozen sand and mudon the very confines of the Frozen Sea. But, what is morewonderful still, whole mountains, hundreds and even thou-sands of feet high, are essentially composed of organic re-mains. 8. Such is the character of the language which the geolo-gist must learn before he can read the curious history of theearth, and of the animal and vegetable races that have livedupon it. A very accurate and extensive knowledge of zoolo-gy and botany will also be required, to enable hini to ascer-tain whether the organic remains which he finds in the rocksbelonged to extinct sj^ecies, or are identical with those nowlivingon the globe. That part of geology which gives thehistory of the remains of plants and animals is called Pal-e-on-tol-o-gy, a Greek w^ord which means the science of an-cient beings or creatures. v 4C2 fifth kkadku. IAKT X. THE DIFFERENT PEHTODR OF TTIE EARTHS ?f^- ©Ii®IL(0)©E(SJi23 W QMAMTc
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