The pocket gophers are New World endemics for which the fossil history commences in the late Miocene (Kurtén and Anderson, 1980).

But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.

the full bent and stress of the soul

The other day one of the men doing the asbestosing on the acid retorts fell in a sulphuric sedimentation tank.