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... rocky exterior over which we travel , and into which we dig and mine and tunnel , is a thing we can see and in- vestigate to a limited depth ; but the interior , sinking away four thousand miles to the centre , is placed altogether be ...
... rocky exterior over which we travel , and into which we dig and mine and tunnel , is a thing we can see and in- vestigate to a limited depth ; but the interior , sinking away four thousand miles to the centre , is placed altogether be ...
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... rocky substances . If we go to the sea - shores , we find similar substances stretching away beneath the waters , or rising up in mid - ocean as reefs and islands . The fair in- ference therefore is , that all the exterior of our planet ...
... rocky substances . If we go to the sea - shores , we find similar substances stretching away beneath the waters , or rising up in mid - ocean as reefs and islands . The fair in- ference therefore is , that all the exterior of our planet ...
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... rocky exterior over which we travel , and into which we dig and mine and tunnel , is a thing we can see and in- vestigate to a limited depth ; but the interior , sinking away four thousand miles to the centre , is placed altogether be ...
... rocky exterior over which we travel , and into which we dig and mine and tunnel , is a thing we can see and in- vestigate to a limited depth ; but the interior , sinking away four thousand miles to the centre , is placed altogether be ...
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... is ever breaking up the rocky crust - here raising the sea - bed into dry land , and there submerging the dry land beneath the ocean— here rending and fissuring , and there producing inequalities and varieties 22 THE CRUST WE DWELL UPON .
... is ever breaking up the rocky crust - here raising the sea - bed into dry land , and there submerging the dry land beneath the ocean— here rending and fissuring , and there producing inequalities and varieties 22 THE CRUST WE DWELL UPON .
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... rocky strata that now constitute the crust of the globe . As might be expected , there will often be every degree of admixture among these strata , just as there is every degree of admixture and impurity among the sedi- ments of ...
... rocky strata that now constitute the crust of the globe . As might be expected , there will often be every degree of admixture among these strata , just as there is every degree of admixture and impurity among the sedi- ments of ...
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