A number of fossil turtles, some of them not less than 3,000,000 years and others 7,000,000 "years old, have just been dug up in New "Mexico. Presumably, to judge from an American conten porary the United States Geological Survey has for quite a long time been Wanting to see what a turtle looked like a few—million years ago, but hitherto only odd bits of turtle of the specified age could be found. Now, however, some well preserved specimens have been recovered, so we pre-stine that the Geological Survey is at last perfectly happy. As a matter of faci we had forgotten that the world was 7,000,000 years old, and we were always doubtful whether there were turtles existing in it at that youthful period. We welcome the happiness that has now descended upon: the Geological Survey, but still their researches clu not help us much, We should be prepared to swap everything we ever learned of the state of the world 7,000,000 years ago for half an inkling of what it will be like next year, or, with even more modesty, what exchange will be doing in another month.
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