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the rate of this under-current is estimated as greater than the 
speed of the Shearwater’s steam-launch; and (3) that it runs at a 
depth of twenty fathoms,—precisely that at which my interpreta- 
tion of Captain Spratt’s experiments has led me to predicate its 
existence. 
I venture to think that this verification of my prediction will be 
regarded as a c i 
under-currents on which it was based; and it is now for those 
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glaciers, glacial theories, vegetation, cleavage, lamination, etc. The 
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