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been preserved ; and of each page, only here and there 

 a few lines. Each word of the slowly-changing lan- 

 guage, in which the history is supposed to be written, 

 being more or less different in the interrupted suc- 

 cession of chapters, may represent the apparently 

 abruptly changed forms of life, entombed in our con- 

 secutive, but widely separated, formations. On this 

 view, the difficulties above discussed are greatly dimi- 

 nished, or even disappear. 



