. The testimony of the rocks; . he paintmgsof ancient Egypt, are greatly faded. A few, however, of ON THE TWO THEOLOGIES 255 the Secondary, and even Palaeozoic shells, still retain therich prismatic hues of the original nacre. Many of theTertiary division still bear the distinctive painted of the later fossil fishes, when first laid open in therock, exhibit the pearly gleam that must of old havelighted up the green depths of the water as they dartedthrough. Not a few of the fossil corals preserve enoughof their former color to impart much delicacy of tint to themarbles in which they
. The testimony of the rocks; . he paintmgsof ancient Egypt, are greatly faded. A few, however, of ON THE TWO THEOLOGIES 255 the Secondary, and even Palaeozoic shells, still retain therich prismatic hues of the original nacre. Many of theTertiary division still bear the distinctive painted of the later fossil fishes, when first laid open in therock, exhibit the pearly gleam that must of old havelighted up the green depths of the water as they dartedthrough. Not a few of the fossil corals preserve enoughof their former color to impart much delicacy of tint to themarbles in which they occur. But it is chiefly in form, notin shade or hue, that we find in the organisms of thegeologic ages examples of that beauty in which mandelights, and which he is ever reproducing for is scarce an architectural ornailient of the Gothic orGrecian styles Avhich may not be found existing as fossilsin the rocks. The Ulodendron was sculptured into grace-fully arranged rows of pointed and closely imbricated Kg.
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