. The Niagara book : a complete souvenir of Niagara Falls : containing sketches, stories and essays--descriptive, humorous, historical and scientific. now is,presents a more difficult problem. But that thedeposit of the materials, of which its soil is composed,began as soon as the irruption of the river through themoraine, at the foot of Lake Erie, was accomplished,can scarcely be doubted. That 35,000 years havepassed, since the shells, found on the Island and in theterraces on either side of the river, were deposited,and that no specific difference is to be discovered,between them and their e
. The Niagara book : a complete souvenir of Niagara Falls : containing sketches, stories and essays--descriptive, humorous, historical and scientific. now is,presents a more difficult problem. But that thedeposit of the materials, of which its soil is composed,began as soon as the irruption of the river through themoraine, at the foot of Lake Erie, was accomplished,can scarcely be doubted. That 35,000 years havepassed, since the shells, found on the Island and in theterraces on either side of the river, were deposited,and that no specific difference is to be discovered,between them and their existing representatives andprogeny, are facts full of interest to the evolutionist. A calcareous soil, enriched with an abundance oforganic matter, like that of Goat Island, wouldnecessarily be one of great fertility. For the growthand sustentation of a forest, and of such plants as pre-fer the woods to the openings, it would far excel thedeep and exhaustless alluvions of the Prairie States. For the preservation of so large a part of the nativevegetation of the Island, we must be thankful to thepolicy of its former owners, who, through so many. ^.^^-^^^S ,„^^ ^
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