Beaming with all the pristine hues of youth,
Robed by the day, and crowned by holy truth.
FOOTNOTES:
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[233] Fownes, On the Existence of Phosphoric Acid in Rocks of Igneous Origin; Phil. Trans. 1844, p. 53. Nesbitt, Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society.
[234] On the Vegetation of the Carboniferous Period as compared with that of the present day; On some peculiarities in the structure of Stigmaria; Remarks on the Structure and Affinities of some Lepidostrobi: by Dr. Hooker; Memoirs of the Geological Survey, &c., vol. ii. pp. 387, 431, 440.
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[236] Report on British Fossil Mammalia: by Richard Owen, Esq., F.R.S.; British Association Reports, vols. xi. xii.