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have risen up amid the booming, as though it were thc smokeveiling some vast elemental war.

The arrangement of the rocks of Switzerland teaches us be-yond the shadow of a doubt that the very Alps themselves arecomparatively creations of our own period, and we are thus ledto conceive the time when the llhine was not —to imagine thedays when the solid earth, tossed and heaved in billows like thesea, tili the very impress of the monster land-waves becamefixed in the mountain chains themselves; and thus to think ofthe melting of the first Alpine snows, which called tbe Rhineinto existence, and caused the new-born river to trickle acrossthe land. Here, too, in the Falls, we see written in the waterthe story of some equally vast, though more modern convulsion.

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The Intellectual Condition — Knowledge of Latin and

Greek — Scientific Ignorance — Teutonic Savants —

WoRLDLY StTJPIDITY —• WANT OF SCIENTIFIC APPLIANCES

—A German Fire — a Philo-Cockciiafer.

" Every baker in Germany," said that Manchester Solon,Mr. Cobden, " can serve you with bread in Latin, as well asin his own language."

Now this was intended to give the English people a senseof the high State of education prevalent throughout Germany;and doubtlessly, to a man of Mr. Cobden's calibre, a knowledgeof Latin and Greek appears (as with all vulgär people, whohave failed to learn the classics in their youth) to constitutethe very climax of wisdom.

The statement is, however, simply untrae. " Salve,