| → in which the history is written, being 1861 |
| in which the history is supposed to be written, being 1859 1860 |
| being 1866 |
| OMIT 1869 1872 |
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| → apparently abruptly changed 1859 1860 1861 |
| OMIT 1866 1869 1872 |
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| → entombed 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
| which are entombed 1869 1872 |
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| → but widely separated, formations. 1860 1861 |
| but widely separated formations. 1859 |
| but widely separated formations, which falsely appear to have been abruptly transformed. 1866 |
| formations, and which falsely appear to us to have been abruptly introduced. 1869 1872 |
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geological
as a history of the world imperfectly kept, and written in a changing dialect; of this history we possess the last volume alone, relating only to two or three countries. Of this volume, only here and there a short chapter has been preserved; and of each page, only here and there a few lines. Each word of the slowly-changing
→in which the history is written, being
more or less different in the
chapters, may represent the
→apparently abruptly changed
forms of life,
→entombed
in our
→but widely separated, formations. On this view, the difficulties above discussed are greatly diminished, or even disappear.
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