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Show Weird Natural History. Tn his recently published autobiography autobiog-raphy Dr Alfred Russel Wallace gives dome of the answers he received from pupils while an examiner In physical geography In British s. hool1-". Hero ure i few of them Q Mention the national na-tional habitat of the horse, the rhinoc-eroi rhinoc-eroi the elephant, ami the hippopotamus. hippopota-mus. A The habit of the horse s ploughing, the elephant goes In shows In reply t a question as to deep dredging In the Atlantic- A The depth of the water of the Allantii Is measured meas-ured b large things called ravines. The de. til Its ' nun m. e- t ;0rl it found at the bottom. Here 's another reply to the same question A The material found by deep dredging In the Atlantic ia the Atlantic canal or cable. Q What animals have become extinct since inan'a appearance on the earth" A filatits, and the great fish which swallowed Jonah Animals which lived before Ihe flood no longer eyist, except their fossilized remains. Istho-ralcs. Istho-ralcs. pleathorus. mammoth, dothorlum. Adan. ami Kvr novel saw, hav Ing become be-come extinct. Q Describe the mariner's comparand compar-and its chief uses. A The mariner's compass Is a box With a Card and lots of ncodlos. If a sailor was shlp- wrecked on a desi rl Island He i ould find a north and south line If he had a nautical nau-tical almanac J How is the depth Of the ocean determined" de-termined" A The ocean contains poee Inset la live at the bottom of the 01 an and bore holes In tb poles: when tho poles are reached they reach the bottom bot-tom of the ocean. |