Show the bed of the pacific if the pacific could bo be laid bare we should have a most singular spectacle there would be a number of mountains with trun truncated c abed tops scattered over it and those mountains would have an appearance just the reverse ot of that presented by the mountains mountain swe we see on the shore the mountains on the shore are covered with vegetation at their bases while their tops are barren or covered with snow but these mountains would be perfectly bare at their bases and all round their tops they would be cove covered aed with beautiful rage vegetation tation of coral polyp |