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Geological Localities. —No. I. Folkestone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2016

S. J. Mackie
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Time passes away, and we all of us grow older and older. As day by day the daylight lengthens or contracts, the air gets warmer or chillier, the skies brighter or bleaker, and everything around us imperceptably changes, it is only after the lapse of weeks that we perceive the change.

Yet Time never stays his rapid course; and in mid-life it is perhaps for the first time we stop in our onward path to feel, for the first time too, we are not what we were.

Years ago, when a child, I picked up shells and pebbles on the Kentish strands. In school-boy days, with bolder hand and surer foot, oft have I scrambled o'er those white chalk-cliffs, or clambered homewards for six long miles o'er sea-weeded rocks with satchel loaded full of fossils gathered from the slippery shores of Eastwear Bay, were the dark-blue crumbling Gault daily yields its crop of glittering fossils to the destructive battering of the salt sea waves.

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The Geologist , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , February 1860 , pp. 41 - 54
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1860

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page 47 note * Some naturalists see a correspondence of the same sort between embryology and comparative anatomy, for they consider the human embryo as passing during its development through the different stages of the scale of animal creation, or, at least, as passing through the different states of the embryos of the different stages of that scale.

page 47 note † The history of Danish Archæology has been sketched by T. Hindenberg. See “Dansk Maanedskrift,” I. 1859 Google Scholar.

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page 48 note § Flouren's, “De la Longevité Humaine.” Paris, 1855. P. 127 Google Scholar. Man, from the construction of his teeth, his stomach, and his intestines, is primitively frugivorous, like the monkey. But the frugivorous diet is the most unfavourable, because it constrains its followers perpetually to abide in those countries which produce fruit at all seasons, consequently in warm climates. But, once the art of cooking introduced, and applied both to animal and vegetable productions, man could extend and vary the nature of his diet. Man has consequently two diets: the first is primitive, natural, and instinctive, and by it he is frugivorous; the second is artificial, being due entirely to his intelligence, and by this he is omnivorous.

page 49 note * Bronze ia still used for casting bells, cannon, and certain parts of machinery. It must not be confounded with common brass, which is a compound of copper and zinc, much lese hard, and appearing only in the Iron-age.

page 50 note * Squier aud Davis.—“Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley.” Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. Washington, 1848. It is one of the most splendid archæological works ever published.

page 50 note † Lapham.—“The Antiquities of Wisconsin.” Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, p. 76, 1855.

page 52 note * Pallas.—“Voyages en Russie,” Paris, 1793, vol. iv., p. 595 Google Scholar. There was but one mass of meteoric iron; it weighed 1,600 lbs.

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page 52 note ‡ Communicated to the author by mining-engineers in Carinthia.

page 53 note * Jahrbuch der K. K. Geologischen Reiohsanstalt. Vienna, 1850, vol. ii., p. 199. Carinthia and Upper Carniolia formed part of the Roman province Noricum, celebrated for its iron.

page 53 note † “The circulation of ideas is for the mind what the circulation of specie is for commerce—a true source of wealth.” de Bonstetten, C. V.. “L'homme du midi et l'homme du Nord.” Geneva, 1826, p. 175 Google Scholar.

page 54 noet * This agrees perfectly with the testimony of statistics. See “Quetelet sur I'homme et le developement de ses facultés.” Paris, 1886, vol. ii, p. 271 Google Scholar. This work of first-rate merit is very near akin to archæology. M. Quetelet has just published a new work, which will certainly be even more remarkable than the first, and which the author of the present paper regrets not to have had within his reach.