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coral growth through geologic ages may have produced this im- 
mense coral limestone area. He agrees with Mr. Conrad in call- 
whole view of this subject Jeaves a strong impression that no 
great changes of level have occurred during the period of forma- 
tion, not only of the present crescent of reef and keys, and the 
Cape Sable and Fort Dallas crescent, but even in the more an- 
cient coral period, which produced the North Peninsula and the 
coral limestones of the great Gulf and Atlantic slop 
these banks is a measure of the depth to which the destroying 
action of the waves extends in their several localities. The 
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wha be supposed that such acute and philosophical minds as 
arwin’s and Dana’s would fail to pereeive and give proper 
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See Pages 41, 42, 57, 62, Fie a 109,115,121, 149, (or in this Journal, [2] xi. 366, 
+ Xii, 32, 36, 330 to 384; xiii, 35, 40; xiv, 78, 79, 83.) where the effects of the 
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