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Page 74
... reader who hears for the first time what he has just been told is , at first , rather bewildered than enlightened . I should advise the reader who may so feel , not unreasonably , to shut this book , to lay it aside , and to peruse it ...
... reader who hears for the first time what he has just been told is , at first , rather bewildered than enlightened . I should advise the reader who may so feel , not unreasonably , to shut this book , to lay it aside , and to peruse it ...
Page 253
... reader takes the very tenable view that Mt. Roraima owes its existence to a measure of eustatic rising , he may conclude that Z. c . mac- conelli is form - making by uplift . If , on second thought , the reader realizes that the cliff ...
... reader takes the very tenable view that Mt. Roraima owes its existence to a measure of eustatic rising , he may conclude that Z. c . mac- conelli is form - making by uplift . If , on second thought , the reader realizes that the cliff ...
Page 313
... reader has a better explanation , I will be very happy to know of it . If his explanation stands when critically analysed against the facts of dispersal , I will immediately underwrite it . The reader will of course understand that ...
... reader has a better explanation , I will be very happy to know of it . If his explanation stands when critically analysed against the facts of dispersal , I will immediately underwrite it . The reader will of course understand that ...
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