Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 739
served connecting, like links of a chain which cannot be broken, the moredefined modifications from each other. It is their position in the scale oforganization which, in the eyes of the philosophic naturalist, gives so muchinterest to some of the forms of life which have been figured above. … Fig. 328.—Sorting, Washing, and Diggifig at the South AfricanAlluvial Diamond-Fields. GOLD AND DIAMONDS. T need hardly be said that gold and diamonds are named under nine-teenth century discoveries in relation to the newly-found fields whichlave yielded these highly-prized substances in remarkable…
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