Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... mountain range in the world , and therefore a very common natural force ; and suppose that this force would explain all ... mountains ; and over whole countries which , though not lofty , lie far enough north or south to be permanently ...
... mountain range in the world , and therefore a very common natural force ; and suppose that this force would explain all ... mountains ; and over whole countries which , though not lofty , lie far enough north or south to be permanently ...
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... mountains , often ending abruptly at the edge of some sudden cliff , where the true work of water , in the shape of ... mountain ridges and promontories , upon rocks of a totally different kind . Some of my readers surely recollect ...
... mountains , often ending abruptly at the edge of some sudden cliff , where the true work of water , in the shape of ... mountain ridges and promontories , upon rocks of a totally different kind . Some of my readers surely recollect ...
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... mountain over Carnarvon . Now perched on the side of that mountain , fourteen hundred feet above the present sea - level , is an ancient sea - beach , five - and- thirty feet thick , lying on great ice - scratched boulders , which again ...
... mountain over Carnarvon . Now perched on the side of that mountain , fourteen hundred feet above the present sea - level , is an ancient sea - beach , five - and- thirty feet thick , lying on great ice - scratched boulders , which again ...
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... mountain - sides only to befool honest human beings , and gives men intellects which are worthless for even the simplest work . Those shells must mean that that mountain , and therefore the mountains round it , must have been once ...
... mountain - sides only to befool honest human beings , and gives men intellects which are worthless for even the simplest work . Those shells must mean that that mountain , and therefore the mountains round it , must have been once ...
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... mountains alone stood out , as islets in a frozen sea ? We want to get an answer to one strange question , and we have found a group of questions stranger still , and got them answered too . But so it is always in science . We know not ...
... mountains alone stood out , as islets in a frozen sea ? We want to get an answer to one strange question , and we have found a group of questions stranger still , and got them answered too . But so it is always in science . We know not ...
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