Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 70
t is true that little patches of dry landexisted, as at the close of the first period; andthese had even been increased a little by the ad-dition of beaches. But these bits of land were sosmall, compared with the vast expanse of ocean,that we are justified in calling it a world ofwater. It must… … IS ancestry was il-lustrious and tra-ditional. He be-longed to the raceof the ScottishChiefs and the Shepherd Kings.He was a noblespecimen of thebrute creation; ofrather slender form;a pointed muzzle;and quivering nos-trils, that could de-tect the feet of his master, even where count-less feet had…
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