Woodman, J. M. [from old catalog] · New York, S[an] F[rancisco, etc.] J.G. Hodge & co. · leaf 425
.Great changes were now evidently to take placeupon the earth. Hitherto most of the depositshad been made from the water. 2. But now they were to come largely from theair. An atmosphere of purple carbonic gas,many miles deep, still completely encircled theglobe. This, with the unoccupied nitrogen,… … DRY LAND APPEARING.-Gen. 1: P. 820 HISTORY OF A DROP OF WATER. 399 been the ferns, pines, arancarias, and other acro-genous plants, of the coal period. The gianttrees of untold centuries, lay prostrate and farhidden beneath the surface, yet, in consequenceof their richness in oil, were incapable of…
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