Mantel’s Fossils of the British Museum, p. 341. Footnote 88: This formation is sometimes called the Jurassic system. Footnote 89: Lyell’s Manual of Elementary Geology, p. 12, ed. 1852. Footnote 90: “So vast an expanse!” Mr. Darwin traced coral reefs in the Pacific, 4,000 miles long and 600 broad. Between the coasts of Malabar and Madagascar there is a chain of coral reefs, called the Maldives and Laccadives, 480 miles long and 50 miles wide. On the east coast of Australia there is an unbroken reef of 350 miles long; and between Australia and Guinea, coral reefs extend 700 miles in length. Truly the coral animals, like the “conies,” are a “feeble folk,” but their habitations survive our proudest monuments. Footnote 91: Hugh Miller’s First Impressions, pp. 203, 204. Footnote 92: Brash is s Wiltshire word for short or brittle; and thus a quick-tempered, irritable person, is said to have a _brashy_ temper. Footnote 93: Geology for Beginners (Weale’s Series), p. 147. Footnote 94: Juke’s Popular Geology, pp. 42–44. Footnote 95: From _krinos_, a lily, and _eidos_, like; lily-shaped animals of the Radiated division, forming a link between the animal and vegetable world. Footnote 96: From _trochos_, a wheel; wheel-shaped crinoideans. Footnote 97: From _pteron_, a wing, and _dactulos_, a finger; the wing-fingered animal. Footnote 98: The term _Weald_ or _Wold_ is the old Saxon for our present _Wood_; and now, altered by pronunciation, is found in connexion with many words and names of places: _e.g. Waltham_ (Weald-ham), the wood house or home; Walthamstow, the wood house store, and so on. Thus it is that words are “fossil poetry.” Footnote 99: Alison’s description of South America, in History of Europe (Article, South American Revolution); vol. viii. Footnote 100: