It is by carefully noting small and apparently insignificant
things and facts that men of science are enabled to reach
some of their most surprizing and interesting conclusions. In
many places the surface of rocks, which millions of years ago
must have formed sandy or muddy sea beaches, is found to be
pitted with the impressions of rain-drops. In England it has
been noticed that in many cases the eastern sides of these
depressions are the more deeply pitted, indicating that the
rain-drops which formed them were driven before a west wind.
From this the conclusion is drawn that in the remote epoch when
the pits were formed the majority of the storms in England came
from the west, just as they do to-day.--_Harper’s Weekly._
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=Testimony of Service=--See WITNESS OF SERVICE.