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... fall of burning cinders , or buried in flows of mud , such as accompany volcanic eruptions . Lastly , these quadrupeds became extinct , and gave place to the existing creation . There are no signs during the whole time required for this ...
... fall of burning cinders , or buried in flows of mud , such as accompany volcanic eruptions . Lastly , these quadrupeds became extinct , and gave place to the existing creation . There are no signs during the whole time required for this ...
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... fall of burning cinders , or buried in flows of mud , such as ac- company volcanic eruptions . ' the lakes , he darkly refers to canic eruptions when the lakes 6 Then , to drain the era of vol- were drained . ' But a little after he ...
... fall of burning cinders , or buried in flows of mud , such as ac- company volcanic eruptions . ' the lakes , he darkly refers to canic eruptions when the lakes 6 Then , to drain the era of vol- were drained . ' But a little after he ...
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... falls into five yards of spouting . Shape the roof like a gable , the same shed of rain is dispersed over ten yards of spouting . Shape the roof like a four- sided pyramid , the same shed of rain is dispersed over twenty yards of ...
... falls into five yards of spouting . Shape the roof like a gable , the same shed of rain is dispersed over ten yards of spouting . Shape the roof like a four- sided pyramid , the same shed of rain is dispersed over twenty yards of ...
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... fall together , and form large rivers , col- lecting as they go the waterflow of the regions through which they pass . Thus a long river is a strong river , because vires acquirit eundo , and it gets wider as it descends . But if river ...
... fall together , and form large rivers , col- lecting as they go the waterflow of the regions through which they pass . Thus a long river is a strong river , because vires acquirit eundo , and it gets wider as it descends . But if river ...
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... falls on the upper valley of the Ouse , but it deepens , lengthens , and widens that valley . And this is the case , not only with that valley and the valleys which I have enumerated , but with every valley in the wide wide world . And ...
... falls on the upper valley of the Ouse , but it deepens , lengthens , and widens that valley . And this is the case , not only with that valley and the valleys which I have enumerated , but with every valley in the wide wide world . And ...
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