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[N.8.] 
In conclusion I trust that this brief and very inadequate 
sketch has at least made it clear that the main features of the 
geological history of Southern India belong to a very remote and 
hoary past—a past contemporaneous with the very earliest 
period of formation of the crust of the earth of which we have 
any geological record. Very possibly it was a period anterior to 
e dawn of life, though this is by no means certain. At an 
tate, it was long anterior to the formation of all those great 
sedimentary systems in which the geological records of the 
evolution of life from earlier to later forms have been preserved 
and which are found but sparingly represented along the 
coastal margins. 
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