 That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the lower Mississippi River was upward...  A Study of the Sky - الصفحة 204بواسطة Herbert Alonzo Howe - 1896 - عدد الصفحات: 340عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 782
...years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now... | |
 | 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 782
...years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi river was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now... | |
 | Edwin Samuel Gaillard - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 332
...years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi river was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1901 - عدد الصفحات: 506
...years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1903 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1903 - عدد الصفحات: 491
...years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now... | |
 | J. Augustus Lemcke - 1905 - عدد الصفحات: 250
...years ago next November, the lower Mississippi river was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like...rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the lower Mississippi will be only a mile and threequarters... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1917 - عدد الصفحات: 536
...years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1917 - عدد الصفحات: 550
...years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now... | |
 | Sir David Oswald Hunter Blair - 1922 - عدد الصفحات: 310
...miles per year. From this it followed that in the old Oolitic-Silurian period, some 100,000 years ago, the lower Mississippi was upwards of 1,300,000 miles...long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod ! I went to Downside in March, for the solemn blessing of the new abbot, my kind and learned... | |
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