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... Italy ; a period during which the land must at first have swarmed with forms of tropic life , and then grown - but very gradually - more temperate , and then colder and colder still ; till at last set in that age of ice , which spread ...
... Italy ; a period during which the land must at first have swarmed with forms of tropic life , and then grown - but very gradually - more temperate , and then colder and colder still ; till at last set in that age of ice , which spread ...
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... Italy , of which the most delicate statues are carved , is carbonate of lime altered and hardened by volcanic heat . But to make mortar of it , it must be softened and then brought into a state in which it can be hardened again ; and ...
... Italy , of which the most delicate statues are carved , is carbonate of lime altered and hardened by volcanic heat . But to make mortar of it , it must be softened and then brought into a state in which it can be hardened again ; and ...
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... Italy , which are of the age of our Oolites , that is , of the freestone of Bath , etc. , hardened by the heat of intruded volcanic rocks . But now : what is the limestone ? and how did it get where it is not into the mortar , I mean ...
... Italy , which are of the age of our Oolites , that is , of the freestone of Bath , etc. , hardened by the heat of intruded volcanic rocks . But now : what is the limestone ? and how did it get where it is not into the mortar , I mean ...
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... be such a confusion of ashes , lavas , and sedimentary rocks as we find throughout most mountain ranges in Snowdon , in the Lake mountains , in the Auvergne in France , in Sicily round Etna , in Italy round 136 [ VI . TOWN GEOLOGY .
... be such a confusion of ashes , lavas , and sedimentary rocks as we find throughout most mountain ranges in Snowdon , in the Lake mountains , in the Auvergne in France , in Sicily round Etna , in Italy round 136 [ VI . TOWN GEOLOGY .
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Charles Kingsley. France , in Sicily round Etna , in Italy round Vesuvius , and in so many West Indian Islands ; the last confusion of which is very likely to be this : That when the volcano has succeeded - as it did in the case of ...
Charles Kingsley. France , in Sicily round Etna , in Italy round Vesuvius , and in so many West Indian Islands ; the last confusion of which is very likely to be this : That when the volcano has succeeded - as it did in the case of ...
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