[60]. “Ancient World,” pp. 76, 77.
[61]. This may seem strange at first; but I have journeyed through tropical forests that realized completely this sketch, so far as stillness and silence are concerned. A modern and most accomplished naturalist says of a Jamaica virgin forest, “Animal life is almost unseen; the solitude is scarcely broken by the voices of birds, except that now and then the rain-bird or the hunter (large cat-tailed cuckoos that love the shade) sound their startling rattle, or the mountain partridge utters those mournful cooings which are like the moans of a dying man.”—Gosse’s Jamaica, p. 198.
[62]. From κάλαμος (calamus), a reed.
[63]. Ansted’s “Ancient World,” p. 82.
[64]. Mesozoic: i.e. middle life period; mesos, middle, zoos, life.
[65]. The Religious Tract Society.
[66]. Lyell’s “Manual of Elementary Geology.” Postscript, p. 13.
[67]. Ansted’s Geology, vol i. p. 306.
[68]. Ichnites; from ichnon, a footstep, and eidos, like.
[69]. Ornithos, a bird, and ichnon.