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... covering , grew , and of what it is composed ; a very small part , doubtless , of all that is to be known about this planet . But as it happens , the mere rind of this earth - fruit which has , countless ages since , dropped , as it ...
... covering , grew , and of what it is composed ; a very small part , doubtless , of all that is to be known about this planet . But as it happens , the mere rind of this earth - fruit which has , countless ages since , dropped , as it ...
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... covered with a dense layer of peat or growing vegetables . But there is another force at work , and quite as powerful as rain and rivers , making the soil of alluvial flats . Perhaps it has helped , likewise , to make the soil of all ...
... covered with a dense layer of peat or growing vegetables . But there is another force at work , and quite as powerful as rain and rivers , making the soil of alluvial flats . Perhaps it has helped , likewise , to make the soil of all ...
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... covered by a shallow sea , and their soils made as the soil of any tide - flat is being made now ? But you may say , and most reasonably , " The tide- flats are just at the sea - level . The whole of the lowland is many feet above the ...
... covered by a shallow sea , and their soils made as the soil of any tide - flat is being made now ? But you may say , and most reasonably , " The tide- flats are just at the sea - level . The whole of the lowland is many feet above the ...
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... covered with ice ? We find , first , an ice - cap or ice - sheet , fed by the winter's snows , stretching over the higher land , and crawling downward and outward by its own weight , along the valleys , as glaciers . We find underneath ...
... covered with ice ? We find , first , an ice - cap or ice - sheet , fed by the winter's snows , stretching over the higher land , and crawling downward and outward by its own weight , along the valleys , as glaciers . We find underneath ...
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... covered partly by an ice - sheet , as Greenland is now , and partly , perhaps , by an icy sea . But , to make assurance more sure , let us look for new facts , and try whether our ice - dream will account for them also . Let us ...
... covered partly by an ice - sheet , as Greenland is now , and partly , perhaps , by an icy sea . But , to make assurance more sure , let us look for new facts , and try whether our ice - dream will account for them also . Let us ...
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