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Sixty Million Years Hence.

Prof. Richard A. Proctor says the moon ia the most interesting of all the heavenly bodies. It has been particularly serviceable in the proof it affords of the law of gravitation. It proves, too, what the world has been in remote ages of the past and what it will be in remote ages to come. Its most significant service to man has been as a measurement of time. The only peroeptible effeot whioh the earth has upon the moon's course is that of attraction, by whioh its route in spaoe is slightly deviated. From the moon's present condition we may inform ourselves of the course of all planetary life. There is every reason to suppose that our present oondition was at one time hers ; that she possessed an atmosphere, water, animal and vegetable life. That has now passed away. Her surface is a sterile, rocky mass. The atmosphere has gone or nearly so, and the seas are dried up. This same prooeas is going on with our earth, and a similar result will eventually ensue, but by reason of the greater bulk of our planet, effects produced in ten millions of years in the moon will require sixty millions with us. — New York Tribute.

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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2057, 12 September 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)

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Sixty Million Years Hence. Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2057, 12 September 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)

Sixty Million Years Hence. Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2057, 12 September 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)

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