The passage used a combination of comparison and contrast and: <span> C. cause and effect.
</span>The passage give us a well descriptive explanation on how the microorganisms (the cause) developed in such a way to the point where their fossils ended up as a petroleum/coal (effect)
Of Plymouth Plantation
"Homage to Mistress Bradstreet"
"To My Dear and Loving Husband"
<span>remarks Concerning the Savages of North America</span>