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.Vo less certain it is that the time flui• i 1 which the countries we now call .smith-east (England. France, dormany, Poland. Pnssia, Fgvpt, Arabia, Syria, were more or less completely covered by a deep sea, was ol' considerable duration. We have already seen that the chalk is, in places more than a thousand feet thick. I think you will agree with me that it must have taken sumo time for the skeletons ol' animalcules of a- hundredth of an inch in diameter to heap up such a mass as-that. / * -X- -X- -XIf the decay ol the soft parts of the sea-urchin; the attachment, growth to maturity, and decay of the Crania ; and the subsequent attachment and growth of the eoraline, took a year (which is a low estimate enough), the accumulation of the inch of chalk must have taken more than a year; and the deposit of a thousand feet of chalk must, consequent! v , have taken more than twelve thousand years.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 January 1932, Page 1
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166APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 27 January 1932, Page 1
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