Lowell, Percival, 1855-1916 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 247
nd notwholly of their own choosing. Prehistoric records makethis conclusion doubly sure, by lengthening the limit ofour observation. Both extinct flora and extinct faunatell the same tale. In the neighborhood of Cairo petrifiedforests attest that Egypt was not always a wiped slate, 210 THE… … Petrified bridge, third petrified forest, near Adamana, Arizona—■ Photograph by Harvey. deserts of New Mexico and Arizona show castellatedstructures far beyond the means of its present Indianpopulation to inhabit. Yet this retrenchment occurredlong before the white man came with his…
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