Capitolo 55
place, but alive in the shady woods of Northern France and
Germany. The evidence of this growth of forest certainly introduces us
an inviting portrait of Europe during a portion of the
Glacial age.
We am not without evidence, also of a very more severe
climate. In a bed of lignite (a coal kind) almost funds in
the same latitude as the growth of forest only mentioned, we discover
the presence of trees that you/they only grow in northern and cold climates,
as it whips, pine of mountain, lard and it fits tightly.<18 > And in some
peat-slush of Southern Europe that belongs to this age < 19 > you/he/she is found
willows that only now grow in Spitzbergen, and of the kind of
musks that flourish only far to the north. It is rather evident
what this deposit testifies to a complex different climate
from that suitable from the deposit first mentioned. No theory
of migration this assemblage of plants can explain, unless it is
migration that very slowly happens, in consequence of an equally
slow change of climate.
From what we have learned as soon as of the animal and plants to live
in Europe during this age, we can frame some conception of the
the climatic and different conditions of Europe. On the one hand, us
has a country with a mild and genial climate. Trees of a heat
latitude was growing then as far north as Paris, and we am able
well images that Europe has abounded in forest shady and grassy
plans through that it flowed the great rivers. You/he/she had been as soon as such
country as that in which elephants and southern animals are able
blooms, while enormous herds of buck and bovine animals wandered
on the whole length and the width of the earth. Where animal
life was so abundant there was sure to be animal carnivores
also, and lions, hyenas, tigers, and the other animals added the
variety of the animal life.
However, this is but a side of the portrait. The other
he/she introduces us with a very different scene; instead of an abundant
growth of forest, earth only sustained whip of dwarf, arctic
willows and shabby musks. Arctic animals as musk-sheep