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The big stones alone in the fields must come from vanished glaciers, and they searched for moraines and faluns. They were several times taken for pedlars on account of their equipage; and when they had answered that they were "engineers," a dread seized them the usurpation of such a title might entail unpleasant consequences.
Isolated masses of such faluns occur from near the mouth of the Loire, in the neighbourhood of Nantes, to as far inland as a district south of Tours. They are also found at Pontlevoy, on the Cher, about seventy miles above the junction of that river with the Loire, and thirty miles south-east of Tours.
In the faluns, on the contrary, the recent species are in a decided minority; and most of them are now inhabitants of the Mediterranean, the coast of Africa, and the Indian Ocean; in a word, less northern in character, and pointing to the prevalence of a warmer climate.
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