In the driving southward of the vegetation by the Glacial epoch the Greenland flora would be "driven into the sea, that is, exterminated." (Hooker quoted by Gray, loc.

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page 124.) I must suspect that plants have been largely introduced by sea currents, which bring so much wood from N.Europe.But here we shall split as wide as the poles asunder.

All the world could not persuade me, if it tried, that yours is not a grand essay.

I do not quite understand whether it is this essay that Dawson has been "down on." What a curious notion about Glacial climate, and Basques and Finns! Are the Basques mountaineers--I hope so.

I am sorry I have not seen the "Athenaeum," but I now take in the "Parthenon." By the way, I have just read with much interest Max Muller (356/7.