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CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. 
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ably 10,000 to 1 2,000 feet of strata removed. — Excava- 
tion of valleys. — The Glacial period. — F ormer extension 
of glaciers. — River system, causes of and changes in — 
Lakes, classes of, origin of — Mountains. — Direction 
of mountain chahis. — ^Relation of north-south and east- 
west chains. — Southward trending of peninsula. — 
General arrangement of continents and oceans . . . 250 
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TABLE OF LINEAR MEASURE. 
I inch = 25.40 millim. 
I foot — ^ 0.305 metre. 
I yard = 0.914 metre. 
I mile = i.6og Idiom. 
