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the submergence which turned them into islands, the comparative poverty of life is very noticeable. Nevertheless, the temperate types have everywhere driven out the polar species which preceded them, except on the very summits of the principal mountains. Near the top of Mount Washington, the highest peak in the Eastern States, there linger even now some few butterflies of a species which is not found again till we reach the arctic regions. Their ancestors were stranded there by the receding glaciers, when all the rest of their kind were driven northwards; and there alone they have been able to hold their own against the better adapted southern kinds which came to occupy the surrounding country.

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