39° POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



enough be seas and oceans, but here were narrow bands which could 

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Map 7. Schiaparelli, 1882. 



How unfamiliar and seemingly impossible the new detail was is best 

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possible now to recognize in what Dawes saw, glimpses of something 

 which later Schiaparelli observed, but it would be quite erroneous to 

 imagine such suggestions as in any sense forestalling a view of the 

 things themselves. Perhaps the best proof of such insufficiency is that 



