The process of rapid superficial humifaction which takes place. here, is to be attributed doubtless to the temperature being so much higher than in the temperate zones, where a corresponding degree of decomposition would be the work of years.

But being chiefly sections of younger rocks than ours, the Austrian diagrams exhibit a more disturbed surface, so far as regards faults and slips, snapped anticlinals, upshoved synclinals, lapped folds, […]

By the Stigiall flode, And the stremes wode Of Cochitos bottumles well; […]

From these delusions to those still more fashionable deceptions, practised by the whole tribe of magnetisers, the transition is very natural.