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Ch. VI. 
bursting forth. We see other wide spaces sinking with- 
out any volcanic outbursts ; and we may feel sure that 
the movement has been so slow as to have allowed the 
corals to grow up to the surface, and so widely extended 
as to have buried over the broad face of the ocean 
every one of those mountains, above which the atolls 
now stand like monuments, marking the place of then’ 
burial. 
