What a curious and interesting subject for contemplation! In the remains of an extinct animal world, England is to find the means of increasing her wealth in agricultural produce, as she has already found the great support of her manufacturing industry in fossil fuel,--the preserved matter of primeval forests,--the remains of a vegetable world. May this expectation be realised! and may her excellent population be thus redeemed from poverty and misery! End of Project Gutenberg's Familiar Letters of Chemistry, by Justus Liebig