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134 The Floral King.
insist on this seem to me to be very little at home
in Mathematics, for how could a weltering flood
possibly throw the shells some thousands of miles
away to a certain place, and then place the other
alluvial layers in such a perfect order? If we con-
sider these phenomena carefully, one must perforce
admit that the earth has lain under water and sea,
and that in this locality then Sargazo existed, below
which these creatures have lived and died; on
which, at last, when the water had diminished,
and Sargazo driven away, gravel has been thrown
up by the billows on to the new bank and strand,
and which has grown together to stone. Thus we
see here the rarest shells in great abundance; the
plainest evidence of landings; how many infinite
housands of life Nature here must have produced
efore she could fill this small locality. C. L.”
Journey through Skane. (South of Sweden.)
“From this can also reasonably be inferred that
many new lands and mountains formerly must have
originated, to which Sargazo and Fucus seem to have
contributed the most. This is a plant existing on the
trackless ocean, and it might almost be said the
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