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Show WOJtKS OF MTUBE." OTOrtY OF THE MAKINO OP THE UNIVERSE. II Haa Mo Ilaglnnlng noil Will liar Ran Tho Lata ot Cr.alloa Nat.r I IIMI How lllT.ra lliilhl Vp Vail ltagtoos, Q The material! with which nature worka, seemingly o diversified, actual. ly io few, aro niver at peace. Thoy know neither haste nor reit. They iro ever In circulation. No sooner have tbey served one purpoio than they are called upon to appear In another role the riven hasten to raako a lakn In every hollow. Yet these hollows are In many Instances scooped out by the action ac-tion of gliders. However, no tooner aro they filled with water than the very glaclcra which excavated their ba-tins ba-tins and Ihe river which filled them, eoniplre to turn them onco more Into olid land. We see thli specimen of the ceaieteaa activity of nature In many stupes. The "Joeis," or the mud, held In suspension by ths rhcra which overflow over-flow their banks, and which la event ually deposited, forms a welt-marked geological formation over n considerable considera-ble section of central Europe, and the mud of the Arctic glacleri, which finds Its representative In the ancient fos-(llltn-ous hrlck-claya of Scotland and other regions where In the Glacial period pe-riod a ilmllar condition of affairs obtained, ob-tained, la faat filling up many ct the fjords Into which the Infra-glacier stream discharge!. The llaltlo la fast becoming a shallow lake. The Sea of Atof, shoaled by the sediment brought down by the rivers which flow Into It, Is gradually being converted Into a stream: and the Po, tie Nile, and the other rivers which flow Into the Mediterranean, Medi-terranean, bid fair to io extend their deltas as to constitute that sea a chain of lakes. The Mississippi and other great American rivers are, on the principal prin-cipal of "robbing Peter to piy Paul," extending the territory through which they flow for considerable distances Into tho Atlantic In time theio mud flat! will rise above the surface, get covered with a dink vegetation, and, after being for ages the home ot fever and reptiles, will become the abode ot man. The -thine, It hat been calculated, calcu-lated, ctrrlaa past Dolu something like 400 tons of solid matter In one hour, and In the course of a year between three and four millions. In the long ages slnco this wearing down of Germany Ger-many has been going on, an Immense amount of land must havo been erodid and deposited Into the airman ocean, where It forma the grratir part of the country now known ai Holland, "The Netherlands," Napoleon Donaparto aa-Sorted, aa-Sorted, In his usual dogmatlo manner, "are composed ot the mud of lrench rlvcra." And It li not easy to aniwer the muter of many legions except after hit own style ot argument, ho proceeded proceed-ed to annex llatavla to the empire. During tho -rainy teaion otlX3raayl the mud brought down by the Gangei paiilog Ghateepoor, 2,000 miles from Its mouth, Is reckoned at over 8,319,- 113,700 torn; and now plague-haunted ilanda, formed In Hi channel even within the memory of man, are the remit. re-mit. The deltas ot the Volga, the Danube and many other rivers might be adduced In proof of the tamt trait, Our Earth and Its Story. |