Lowell, Percival, 1855-1916 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 244
em.With increasing optical approach the substance evapo-rated, but the form remained. It was speedily evidentthat there was no water there; yet the semblance of itsrepository still lurked in those shadows and suggests it-self to one scanning their surfaces to-day. If they be notold sea bottoms,… … 206 THE EVOLUTION OF WORLDS lunar face was being corrugated. This preservativepoints to some superincumbent pressure which can havebeen no other than water. Lava-flows on such a scaleseem inadmissible. What these surfaces show and whatthey do not show alike hint them sea bottoms onceupon a time. In…
Cosmogony
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