Better be Saving of Water.
' Ricbatd A.. Proctor vsiays; that the age of the earth is placed hv some. ■ai-i.'.fiOO^IDOiOOO years,.. mud ;ti^ill ■others of later t'me^fiaiMong i-thertf the -Ditke'-of ■•■"•AvgyJe," places-it at il 0,000,000 yc^vs../ None place it .lower than ib;()00,060, knowing : tha processes that h<ve been gon^ ;tKrou^H. '■ The ; eavtli A iritJst"have^eiIcome elcL. New.ton \^surmised, al;though he could give no reason for • it, that itJoSe time ibecome perfectly" dry. " Since then ithaS been 'found' that Newton Was icWe<rt. ! '• ;As ; thi ckttth' ke e|Ts' t-p.ll ing jit 'vHH h£com& ' f j>?'W>u*/^°' aiicV.'.groat cki-Wics will foe'forhicYl in' the'niteri- ; or, which will, Like m the' \yuie)\. 1 1 1 '$' estimrtt'ed; that l this ' '/froe'es^is InoV iii > ''^rogVc.*?s"; so" far' that the jwatcr diminishes at the' 1 rate of the, jtMcltness of 'a " sheet ; 'of ; "taa'^er ;a year: '." At ; 't^iis' 1 ; rat;e. ' iii /^OOO, ;00P years the water wilih'aW sunlc •a &ifc, ti M m; -T^OOrjJpOO; 'years •every tmce t bl w^ter" \yjll "hays dis- : appeared from the" face of thei ? iglqbe.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 10, 10 December 1884, Page 4
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170Better be Saving of Water. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 10, 10 December 1884, Page 4
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