Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 90
sea-bottoms have become dry land, and dry land has sunk to form sea-bottoms, — Alps andHimalayas, Pyreneesand Apennines, Alle-ghanies and RockyMouQtains, have hadtheir stormy birth-days since many ofthese beds have beenpiled one above an-other, and there are but few spots on the earths sur-face… … Skeleton of Animal of the PliocenePeriod. 64 Wonders of Earth, Sea, and Sky where the Pyrenees raise their rocky barrier betweenFrance and Spain, the waters of the Mediterraneanand Atlantic met, — that, where the British Channelflows, dry land united England and France, and Naturein those days made…
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