Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 72
n reached, I will answer here a ques-tion which, were we talking together, he might natu-rally ask in a somewhat sceptical tone. How doyou know that this state of things ever existed, and,supposing that the solid materials of which our earthconsists were ever in a liquid condition, what righthave… … A Voi,CANO. America the Old World 47 materials; because the agencies that were at work thenare at work now, and the present is the logical sequenceof the past. From artesian wells, from mines, fromgeysers, from hot springs, a mass of facts has been col-lected, proving incontestably the heated…
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