The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-12-05 00:00:00

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the three miles, from the red stones at Hoylake, to
'est end of the embankment, and of the remaining
piles of coast, from the east end of the embankment
Red Noses, at New Brighton. The turf-brows there
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dssed the case, plants which had successively grown upon and amongst
AN OLD TRICK.—We read in the Siecle :—" Two days each other, and, from their appearance, he judged that
it would take not less than twelve years to accumulate lux
ago an elegantly-dressed female entered a furrier's shop
sear the Palais Royal, and, after looking over sundry inch ,s, possibly more. Some Parts of the exist-
',..les. fired on a muff and tippet marked at 450 f. ' You mg tr ff-brows were yet five feet thick, though the sea had.
in ,
flowing over them for many years. Allowing one
to have been washed off them by the action of the seas
-ould make them to have been at one time six feet
and, if the estimate given as to growth weresnear
k, it would take 864 years to grow a thickness of
at _. 2_ tile hour appointee., _...../FLUiLII present, To this period of time must be added the inter-
himself, and found the lady seated at a well-served table ; ~ had elapsed since any growth took place. Accord-
she said to him, ' I am delighted at your exactitude. ing co the evidence of Captain Greenville Collins, the
While Igo and fetch you the money, do me the favour to turf-brows were covered by wind-driven sand, 164 years
sit down and taste oar 'green oysters of Marennes, for ago, so that no growth could possibly have occurred since
which the house is famous ; Eugene,' she added, familiarly that period. In the year 1362 the whole hundred of Wir-
calling one of the waiters, `bring this gentleman a dozen ral was disforested, by order of Edward the Black Prince;
of green oysters, and 'a bottle of Sauterne.'. The shopman and as probably little, if any, accumulations would take
at first refused this politeness, but at length assented. place after this period, these turf-brows afforded some
Quitting her dinner, the lady took her purchases and evidence of a state of things reaching 1,300 years back_
showed them to the dame de comptoir, who expressed her The numerous remains of stags' horns, antlers, and a very
admiration of them, 'and she then
left by a private door fine head of Los-taurus preserved in the castle, at Leasowe,„
which led to the small dining-room up stairs. The shop- and all of which had been found embedded in these turf-
manquoted the views of Sir Edward Cust upon this subject :.--
' The geological formation is pretty nearly the same on
sat for some time without suspicion, enjoying his brows, seemed to favour this supposition. Mr. Rolle&
oysters and wine, but at length growing impatient, he
spoke to the dame de comptoir, requesting her to ask the
to betoken the same course of change and transition. * -
lady, the relative of the master of the house, to settle the the shore itself, as is the lowlands within it, and appears
'" as he was anxious +o return home. This request led
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will send them to me,' said she, with a bill receipted, to
the restaurant of M. L-, in the Rue St. Honore, who fL
is a relative of mine, and where I am residing during my tln
stay in Paris. Let them come at four o'clock precisely, thic,
which is my dinner hour, and when I shall be sure to be the a
home.' it ' *-ted, a shm,-- meted six fe