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extensive 

 ties, ^v ; 

 enougli 



How 

 very i 

 of r; 

 Ohi 

 mau'j 



1, arid Ir 1. formed of the 

 This I- disappeared by 

 from bene;ii. It is possible 

 ue portion of ils primitive lava- 

 level of thniicient ocean. Tt 

 in land iiiuilt of the ruins 

 But I dee it more probable 

 rials have bei more than once 

 ver the truth i ay lie in this re- 

 on of the oldt rocks which we 

 ence of an olterated continent, 

 in continent I self. On its own 

 of enorniou magnitude. The 

 uiaterial rest li? lumber piled on 

 'S of the Lanntide region tlje 

 ling place sonn thousands of feet 

 f^vels as they now \ist. Clearly, the 

 .la at one time a mcntain chain which 

 vn to moderate levs by the action of 

 Turn toward the ea^vard prolongation 

 of Canadian hills noli of the St. Law- 

 ent land abuts again the coast of Lab- 

 the navigator brings s new suggestions, 

 immet has felt of thncean's bottom all 

 vfoundland to Irebd. There is the 

 On this Y< great Atlantic 



n this shallow water, a;ng this submerged 

 ^ not discover the stumpjf the ancient pro- 

 he Archiean land? Areiot Newfoundland, 

 New Brunswick, and th -rualler islands of 

 f, remaining patches of aontinent^l prolon- 

 b has been worn down Ir + be waves? And 



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