[107] The capelin (Mallotus villosus), which still lives in the Atlantic.
[108] It was also seen the following year on the coast of Virginia, and on that of Norway in both 1845 and 1846.
[109] He says that the alleged sea-serpent washed ashore at Stronsa (Orkneys) in 1808 is proved by the bones (some of which are preserved) to have been this animal.
[110] The formation, however, does not belong to the Carboniferous system, but is shown by its fossils to be Jurassic in age.
[111] It is described and figured in later editions of the "Principles of Geology," chap. xv. (eleventh edition).
[112] A species of Gnathodon.
[113] Gnathodon cuneatus.
[114] A bayou is the name given to an old channel of the river. When the latter is making a series of horseshoe curves, the stream often cuts through the neck of land which separates its nearest parts. The water then takes the shortest course, the entrances to the old channel are silted up, and it becomes a horseshoe-shaped pool.
[115] T. Carlyle ("Letter on Secular Education").