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The world: (1848)

Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 187

An illustration from The world:, 1848, leaf 187
=»|y^ife inally horizontal, as deposited at successive epochs, by water, tobe, by some internal force, upheaved as in fig. 2, the external … *&2 surface being rent and cracked, and further that after a course ofages, the softer and more modern deposits should be worn awayby the agency of rains, frosts, floods, &c.t until it was reduced tothe level a b, we would have the succession of strata as in fig. 3,

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