APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS.
When we-consider that the remains of more than three thousand distinct species of c-quatic animals have been discovered among fossils of the chalk, tl.«t the great majority of them are oi such forms as are now met with only in the sea, and that\ there is no reason to believe’ that any of them inhabited fresh water —the collateral evidence that the chalk represents an ancient sea-bottom acquires as great force as the proof derived from the nature of the chalk itself. L think you will not allow that that I did not overstate my case when 1 asserted that we have as strong grounds lor belieting that all the vast area of dry land, at present occupied by the chalk, was once at the bottom of* the sea, as we have for any matter of history whatever; while there is no justification for any other belief.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1932, Page 1
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150APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS. Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1932, Page 1
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