Capitolo 24
sassafras. No, also in Spitzbergen glacier-dressed same, where the
character of the flora already starts to show signals of incipient
cooling, we see nevertheless among the types of Eocene such plants as the
swamp-cyprus of the Carolinas and the wellingtonias of the Far the west,
together with a vegetation of forest rich in poplars, whips, oaks,
airplanes, filberts, walnut-trees, water-lilies and iride. As a whole, this
vegetation still books a notably more genial climate, mild, and
uniform that that of modern England.
It was in this world that cooks some chalk and the Eocene that the great one
fauna mammalian takings his/her increase before; it was in this easy world of
fruits and light of the sun to which the primitive ancestors of man first has started
jobs toward the human level distinctively of the palaeolithic upward
period.
But then, in the mean-career of that third day of the geologic play,
come to a cold--a sharp-cold; and slowly but certainly the whole arctic
and worlds of antarctic were cooled and you/they were made to come the cramps to, degree after degree, from
the upcoming gradual of the I Freeze Age Gran. I won't give here
with or the causes or the extension of that colossal cataclysm; ME
he/she will take all those for it currently granted: thing we pertain to with
now it is the results it went away behind--the changes that it beaten on
fauna and flora and on human society. Especially it is it of the importance in
this connection to point out that the Glacial epoch is not yet completely
ended--if, you/he/she is ever destined indeed, to be ended. We am living
he/she anchors on the binge of the I Freeze Age, in an it was cold and sad the
legacy of the glaciers accumulated of the northerner and Southerner
snow-field.
If a time that ice was melted away--ah there is well a lot of virtue in a
_if_. Anchor, the Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace seems to suggest in some place that
the sun is gradually making even now raids on those great
glacier-sheets of the northern beret, in the moment in which we know him you/he/she is doing on the