The herring is a salt water fish proving that the country around Frozen Dog was at one time under the sea.
A few weeks ago, in the Missouri River bottom near Omaha, some Harvard scientists discovered the remains of three ancient towns, one buried on top of the other.
In the Nile valley in Egypt nine towns, in one location, have been unearthed, each town in a different strata of alluvial deposit.
The ninth or top city is the ancient City of Memphis, once the largest city in the world.
Those cities and the mute eloquence of my fossil herring plainly point out the fact that the world is millions of years old.
Last summer I found some coral on Washington Island, which is off the point of land where Lake Michigan and Green Bay meet. Coral is only formed in salt water.
Geologists tell me that Washington Island and surrounding country plainly shows marks of three distinct glacial periods.
Several times the poles were in the tropical climate, and consequently the tropics or the temperate zones at least were under permanent snow and ice.
The earth changes its axis every few thousand centuries, that we know.
The rains and snows wash the earth to the sea, depositing layers of sand and sediment, which as the ages go by, turn to stone and form permanent pages that man may read in succeeding eras.