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HAROLD’S DISCUSSIONS. 
tinuous night. The waters above and in the seas 
determined that no continents should live, and vigor¬ 
ously attacked the uncovered lands, nibbing and bit¬ 
ing away until a large part of them had been brought 
low and spread over the adjacent sea floor. It is 
these flrst deposits that must have become the Ar¬ 
chaean rocks. 
