Lowell, Percival, 1855-1916 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 205
that during all the earlierstages of the Earths career water as such was absent,and as water subsequently appeared, it is clear that the conditions did not at firstallow it to form. We aresure, therefore, that therewas a time when water ex-Ideal section of a LACCOLITH— istcd ouly as steam, and very… … A PLANETS HISTORY 171 ages, when the Earth wore her cloud-wrapper much asJupiter his now. That the seas were not once and yet are to-day, affordsproof positive that at some intermediate period they be-gan to be. Avery long intermediate one it must havebeen, too, — all the time it took the Earth to…
Cosmogony
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