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[1000] Maclaren, art. America, Encyc. Britannica, where the position of the American forests, in accordance with this theory, is laid down in a map.
[1001] Annuaire du Bureau des Long. 1834.
[1002] Since this was written I have seen in New Brunswick (1852) a lake formed by beavers who had thrown a dam, consisting of stakes, stones, and mud, across the course of a small streamlet, between Dorchester and the Portage south of the Peticodiac river. The beavers have since been extirpated by man, but the lake remains, and musk rats have taken possession of the shallow parts of the lake to build their habitations in them.
[1003] For a catalogue of plants which form peat, see Rev. Dr.
Rennie's Essays on Peat, p. 171; and Dr. MacCulloch's Western Isles, vol. i. p. 129.
[1004] Irish Bog Reports, p. 209.
[1005] System of Geology, vol. ii. p. 353.
[1006] Rev. Dr. Rennie on Peat, p. 260.
[1007] Darwin's Journal, p. 349.; 2d ed. p. 287.
[1008] Rennie's Essays on Peat, p. 65.
[1009] Ibid. p. 30.
[1010] Essays on Peat, &c., p. 74.
[1011] See above, p. 388, note.
[1012] Ehrenberg, Taylor's Scientific Mem. vol. i. part iii.
p. 402.
[1013] Dr. Rennie, on Peat, p. 521; where several other instances are referred to.
[1014] Phil. Trans., vol. x.x.xviii. 1734.
[1015] Dr. Rennie, on Peat, &c., p. 521.
[1016] Syst. of Geol. vol. ii. pp. 340-346.
[1017] Ibid. p. 531.
[1018] Phil. Trans. vol. xv. p. 949.
[1019] Gilpin, Observ. on Picturesque Beauty, &c., 1772.
[1020] Travels, &c., in 1841, 1842, vol. i. p. 143.
[1021] Bulletin de la Soc. Geol. de France, tom. ii. p. 26.
[1022] Dr. Rennie, Essays on Peat Moss, p. 205.
[1023] M. G. A. De Luc, Mercure de France, Sept. 1809.
[1024] See p. 262.
[1025] Stratton, Ed. Phil. Journ., No. v. p. 62.
[1026] Travels in North Africa in the Years 1818, 1819, and 1820, p. 83.
[1027] Mem. de l'Acad. des Sci. de Paris, 1772. See also the case of the buried church of Eccles, above, p. 306.
[1028] Phil. Trans., vol. ii. p. 722.
[1029] Boase on Submersion of Part of the Mount's Bay, &c., Trans. Roy. Geol. Soc. of Cornwall, vol. ii. p. 140.
[1030] Narrative of Journey from Agra to Oujein, Asiatic Researches, vol. vi. p. 36.
[1031] Asiatic Journal, vol. ix. p. 35.
[1032] See above, p. 460.
[1033] Sir J. Malcolm's Central India. Appendix, No. 2. p.
324.
[1034] Sir T. D. Lauder, Bart., on Floods in Morayshire, Aug.
1839, p. 177.
[1035] Dodsley's Ann. Regist., 1788.
[1036] Edwards, Hist. of West Indies, vol. i. p. 235, ed.
1801.
[1037] Journ. of Asiat. Soc., Nos. xxv. and xxix., 1834.
[1038] Ann. des Sci. Nat. tom. xxii. p. 117, Feb. 1831.
[1039] Malte-Brun's Geog., vol. i. p. 435.
[1040] Bakewell, Travels in the Tarentaise, vol. i. p. 201.
[1041] Nahum Ward, Trans. of Antiq. Soc. of Ma.s.sachusetts.
Holmes's United States, p. 438.
[1042] Bull. de la Soc. Geol. de France, tom. ii. p. 329.
[1043] See above, p. 240.
[1044] See remarks by M. Boblaye, Ann. des Mines, 3me serie, tom. iv.
[1045] Ann. des Mines, 3me serie, tom. iv., 1833.
[1046] Bull. de la Soc. Geol. de France, tom. iii. p. 223.
