The Rise And Progress of Palaeontology
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"As in civil history we consult deeds, seek for coins, ordecipher antique inscriptions in order to determine the epochs of humanrevolutions and fix the date of moral events; so, in natural history, we must search the archives of the world, recover old monuments from thebowels of the earth, collect their fragmentary remains, and gather intoone body of evidence all the signs of physical change which may enableus to look back upon the different ages of nature. It is our onlymeans of fixing some po...ints in the immensity of space, and of setting acertain number of waymarks along the eternal path of time. " Buffon enumerates five classes of these monuments of the past history ofthe earth, and they are all facts of palaeontology. In the first place, he says, shells and other marine productions are found all over thesurface and in the interior of the dry land; and all calcareous rocksare made up of their remains. Secondly, a great many of these shellswhich are found in Europe are not now to be met with in the adjacentseas; and, in the slates and other deep-seated deposits, there areremains of fishes and of plants of which no species now exist in ourlatitudes, and which are either extinct, or exist only in more northernclimates.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
"As in civil history we consult deeds, seek for coins, ordecipher antique inscriptions in order to determine the epochs of humanrevolutions and fix the date of moral events; so, in natural history, we must search the archives of the world, recover old monuments from thebowels of the earth, collect their fragmentary remains, and gather intoone body of evidence all the signs of physical change which may enableus to look back upon the different ages of nature. It is our onlymeans of fixing some po...ints in the immensity of space, and of setting acertain number of waymarks along the eternal path of time. " Buffon enumerates five classes of these monuments of the past history ofthe earth, and they are all facts of palaeontology. In the first place, he says, shells and other marine productions are found all over thesurface and in the interior of the dry land; and all calcareous rocksare made up of their remains. Secondly, a great many of these shellswhich are found in Europe are not now to be met with in the adjacentseas; and, in the slates and other deep-seated deposits, there areremains of fishes and of plants of which no species now exist in ourlatitudes, and which are either extinct, or exist only in more northernclimates.
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