Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 59
length proof hasbeen found, in the shape of mud dredged up fromthe ocean-bottom — mud entirely composed of count-less multitudes of these little shells, dropping thereby myriads, and becoming slowly joined together inone mass. Just so, it is beheved, were the white chalk cliffsbuilt — gradually… … 34 Wonders of Earth, Sea, and Sky reaches of white chalk cHffs have been made. ChalkcHfe and chalk layers extend from Ireland, through England and France, as faras to the Crimea. In the southof Russia they are said to besix hundred feet thick. Yetone cubic inch of chalk is cal-culated to hold the…
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