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... WILLIAM CRAWFORD GORGAS (1854 - 1920) American Army Surgeon 215 INSECTICIDES, VECTOR INSECTS AND AGRICULTURE 217 PAUL HERMANN MULLER (1899 - 1965) Swiss Chemist 217 RACHEL CARSON (1907-1964) Marine Biologist 221 RACHEL CARSON AND HER BOOK SILENT SPRING 221 THE ERA OF WONDER DRUGS, SULFA DRUGS AND ANTIBIOTICS 223 GERHARD DOMAGK (1895 - 1964) German Biochemist and ...

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...TS AND AGRICULTURE .................. 217PAUL HERMANN MULLER (1899 - 1965) Swiss Chemist .......................................... 217RACHEL CARSON (... ...) German Biochemist and Bacteriologist .... 224DANIELE BOVET (1907 - 1992) Swiss-Italian Pharmacologist ............................... 226THE NEW ERA... ...STRY....................................... 303JEAN SENEBIER (1742 - 1809) Swiss Scholar and Plant Physiologist .................. 304 ... ............. 304 XXITHEODORE De SAUSSURE (1767 - 1845)Swiss Chemist and Plant Physiologist.......................................... ......................................... 340JEAN BAUHIN (1541 - 1631) French-Swiss Naturalist ................................................ 341CASPAR... ...ively YOUNG EARTH were not accepted byCHARLES DARWIN and by GEOLOGISTS like SIR CHARLES LYELL, who needed amuch older EARTH t... ...ted by lectures on GEOLOGY andeventually became one of the leading Geologists in Europe. LYELL did some GEOLOGIC STUDIES in Europe and bec... ...ASTROPHES. This idea represented their PRINCIPLE of UNIFORMITARIANISM. Geologists also came to believe that something drastic had occurre... ...ist should be able toexplain the ORIGIN of LIFE on our PLANET, just as geologists were explaining theORIGIN of the EARTH’S GEOLOGY, by simpl...

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...ry. BERNARDO TREVISAN (1406 -1490) Italian Alchemist 39 One of the most famous alchemists of the middle ages. PHILIPPUS A. PARACELSUS (1493-1541) Swiss Physician and Alchemist 41 Contributed to modernize chemistry and medicine. MORE ABOUT THE PSEUDOSCIENCE OF ALCHEMY 43   THE BIRTH OF MODERN SCIENCE 46 THE ADVENT OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE AND THE SCIENTIFIC RE...

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...ddle ages. IXPHILIPPUS A. PARACELSUS (1493-1541) Swiss Physician and Alchemist .......... 41 Contributed to modernize ch... ...the Chemical Structure of terpenes.LEOPOLD S. RUZICKA (1887-1976) Croatian-Swiss Chemist .................................... 237 Synthesized the ... ... Proponent of the Theory of Catalysis.ALFRED WERNER (1866-1919) German-Swiss Chemist............................................. 248 Proponen... ...ted the minimum daily requirements for amino acids.PAUL KARRER (1889-1971) Swiss Chemist ................................................................ ...................................... 467PHILIPPUS A. PARACELSUS (1493-1541) Swiss Physician and Alchemist .......... 470THE BIRTH OF MODERN SCIENCE ...... ...GIC SOCIETY of LONDON.This was the first society of its kind in the world. Geologists have always had a deepinterest in the GEOLOGIC HISTORY of ...

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...ISH MATHEMATICIAN AND PHYSICIST 103 GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ (1646 - 1716) - GERMAN MATHEMATICIAN AND PHILOSOPHER 105 LEONHARD EULER (1707 - 1783) - SWISS MATHEMATICIAN 106 DANIEL BERNOULLI (1700 - 1782) - SWISS MATHEMATICIAN 108 JEAN D’ALEMBERT (1717 - 1783) - FRENCH MATHEMATICIAN 110 JOHANN HEINRICH LAMBERT (1728 - 1777) GERMAN MATHEMATICIAN 110 JOSEPH LAGRANGE...

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...................................................... 108LEONHARD EULER (1707 - 1783) - SWISS MATHEMATICIAN ...... 109DANIEL BERNOULLI (1700 - 1782) - ... ... AMONTONS (1663 - 1705) - FRENCH PHYSICIST ..... 376DANIEL BERNOULLI (1700 - 1782) - SWISS MATHEMATICIAN .... 377THE THERMOMETER AND THE TEMPERATURE... ...uring the 19th century. LEONHARD EULERLEONHARD EULER (1707 - 1783) - SWISS MATHEMATICIAN. LEONHARD EULER was born on April ... ... 110 DANIELLE BERNOULLIDANIELLE BERNOULLI (1700 - 1782) - SWISS MATHEMATICIAN. DANIELLE BERNOULLI was born February 8,... ... JOSEPH LAGRANGE’S mathematical abilities were soon recognized by thegreat Swiss Mathematician, LEONHARD EULER. LAGRANGE used his mathemati... ...e 2 BILLION YEARSestimated by EDWIN HUBBLE. This NEW AGE of our UNIVERSE made our GEOLOGISTS very happy becausethey had determined that our PLANET... ...y becausethey had determined that our PLANET EARTH was about 3 BILLION YEARS OLD. GEOLOGISTS needed for our EARTH to be this old in orde... ... Scottish Geologist, SIR CHARLES LYELL (1797 - 1875) and otherprominent geologists were not happy with KELVIN’S proposed YOUNG AGE of th... ...ith KELVIN’S proposed YOUNG AGE of theEARTH of about 100 million years. This, because geologists needed a MUCH OLDEREARTH in order to accommodate ...

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...TS AND AGRICULTURE .................. 318PAUL HERMANN MULLER (1899 - 1965) Swiss Chemist .......................................... 319 In 1939 PA... ...G AGAINST BACTERIAL INFECTIONS AND DISEASES.DANIELE BOVET (1907 - 1992) Swiss-Italian Pharmacologist ............................... 328 DISCOV... ...STRY....................................... 412JEAN SENEBIER (1742 - 1809) Swiss Scholar and Plant Physiologist .................. 141 ESTABLISHED... ... JUST AS JAN INGENHOUSZ HAD DETERMINED.THEODORE De SAUSSURE (1767 - 1845)Swiss Chemist and Plant Physiologist.......................................... ......................................... 452JEAN BAUHIN (1541 - 1631) French-Swiss Naturalist ................................................ 453CASPAR... ...ively YOUNG EARTH were not accepted byCHARLES DARWIN and by GEOLOGISTS like SIR CHARLES LYELL, who needed a ... ...ted by lectures on GEOLOGY andeventually became one of the leading Geologists in Europe. LYELL did some GEOLOGIC STUDIES in Europe and bec... ...ASTROPHES. This idea represented their PRINCIPLE of UNIFORMITARIANISM. Geologists also came to believe that something drastic had occurre... ...ist should be able toexplain the ORIGIN of LIFE on our PLANET, just as geologists were explaining the 537ORIGIN of the E...

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...n fortify bones. Remember to exercise your bones because that is how they manage growth.Key Points from Geologists from Maryland U:•Fossils are the ph... ... Kale 146 147 Green Tea 145 Red Peppers 148 Spinach & Squash 149 Swiss Chard 150The Brassicas contain Sulforaph... ...ers to attract birdswhich are natural competitors. Mesh and Intercrop with thin leaf or herb vegetables.SWISS CHARD: Good source of anti-oxidants and ... ...ming it (can usethe whole plant). Grows back often when you enjoy harvesting like all leafy vegetables. Swiss chard andmost leafy vegetables can be gr... ...Normally you would want to give your plantsspace to breathe and grow. However like a bush or forest the swiss grows well together too. ... ...een a carrot and a broccoli bro. Which means cleanly distanced from each other ARETHESE TECHNIQUES TOO. Swiss Chards grow fast, in about 3 months can ...

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...ics of CALCULUS, independently of NEWTON.LEONHARD EULER (1707 - 1783) - SWISS MATHEMATICIAN ...... 189 One of the greatest mathematicians of t... ...with SIR ISAAC NEWTON and KARL GAUSS.DANIELLE BERNOULLI (1700 - 1782) - SWISS MATHEMATICIAN 191 MEMBER OF A FAMILY OF GREAT MATHEMATICIANS.JEAN... ...(1663 - 1705) - FRENCH PHYSICIST ..... 471DANIEL BERNOULLI (1700 - 1782) - SWISS MATHEMATICIAN .... 473THE THERMOMETER AND THE TEMPERATURE SCALE ..... ... 188 LEONHARD EULERLEONHARD EULER (1707 - 1783) - SWISS MATHEMATICIAN. One of the greatest mathematicians of the 18th ce... ... 190 DANIELLE BERNOULLIDANIELLE BERNOULLI (1700 - 1782) - SWISS MATHEMATICIAN. MEMBER OF A FAMILY OF GREAT MATHEMATICIANS. ... ...N YEARSestimated by EDWIN HUBBLE. This NEW AGE of our UNIVERSE made our GEOLOGISTS very happy becausethey had determined that our PLANET EARTH was... ...hey had determined that our PLANET EARTH was about 3 BILLION YEARS OLD. GEOLOGISTS needed for our EARTH to be this old in order to jus... ... Geologist, SIR CHARLES LYELL (1797 - 1875) and otherprominent geologists were not happy with KELVIN’S proposed YOUNG AGE of the ... ...e 433EARTH of about 100 million years. This, because geologists needed a MUCH OLDEREARTH in order to accommodate and expl...

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...iam Tell, the mythical hero of Switzerland, XXIII. 155· Arnold Winkelried, the Swiss patriot, XXIV. 612. Jeanne D'Arc, the heroine who saved France ... ...ion of theblood (1578-1658), XI. 502. Conrad Gesner, the eminent Swiss naturalist of theXVIth century, X. 554. John Ray," the ... .... The GeographicalDistribution of Animals," 1609 sup. Albrecht von Haller, the Swiss physiologist, XI. 396. Johannes Muller, the German anatomist, X... ...nator of the theory ofevolution, XIV. 231. Louis Agassiz, the great Swiss-American scientist, I. 274. D... ...ell, XV. 101. Hugh Miller, XVI. 319. William Buckland, IV. 420.Geologists. . Sir Roderick Murchison, XVII. So. John Phillips,... ... men. 269; of greatAmerican literature. 64. soldiers. 28S; of geologists. 305.Americans. Great. JO. Birds. 92 • 95.A...

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...st FAMOUS ALCHEMISTS of the MIDDLE AGES.PHILIPPUS A. PARACELSUS (1493-1541) Swiss Physician and Alchemist ....... 117- Helped to transform the pse... ...Chemical Structure of TERPENES.LEOPOLD STEPHEN RUZICKA (1887-1976) Croatian-Swiss Chemist ................ 314 Synthesized the perfume Musk.GEORGE... ...s revolutionized the SCIENCE of CHEMISTRY.ALFRED WERNER (1866-1919) German-Swiss Chemist ........................................... 325 PROPOSED... ...ated the minimum daily requirements for amino acids.PAUL KARRER (1889-1971) Swiss Chemist................................................................ ....................................... 546PHILIPPUS A. PARACELSUS (1493-1541) Swiss Physician and Alchemist ....... 549THE BIRTH OF MODERN SCIENCE ........ ...OGIC SOCIETY of LONDON.This was the first society of its kind in the world. Geologists have always had a deepinterest in the GEOLOGIC HISTORY of ...

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...s are 3,200 scientistswho identify themselves as volcanologists, including geologists and igneous petrologists, whostudy volcanic rock; seismologists,... ....On April 20, two weeks after Punongbayan's initial phone call, three USGS geologists left forthe Philippines. "It was a small, tentative investment t... ...and computers was in place plotting more than 50earthquakes a day. But the geologists did not know whether the quakes signaled an eruptionor simply sl... ...lasticflow on Pinatubo's western slope, just the kind of visible proof the geologists would need toconvince the Air Force commander to take action. Th... ...rlow says. "I was happy the thing had eruptedexactly as we said."While the geologists will never know for sure how many lives their warning saved, pri... ...ly100 cases involving US$350-million allegedly held by theMarcos family in Swiss banks. The Swiss federal tribunalruled in December 1990 that the mone... ... Regional Trial Court Branch of26 of 32 counts of dollar salting involving Swiss bankaccounts due to reasonable doubt. Imelda, in reaction to heracqui...

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...e crust and thencondensed. The oceans formed from below,not from above.What geologists mainly dispute now is therate at which the oceans formed. Did t... ...the length of time necessary to finish the task, can all be calculated. A Swiss mathematician18, Charles Eugene Guye, has made the computation a... ... Certainly, even granting theimmense periods of time postulated by geologists, itis difficult to see how such a relatively modernanimal as th... ... Von Engeln gives perhaps the most directexplanation of this phenomenon: “Geologists hold that the lighter matter on the surface of the earth emer...

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.... But if leftist parties gained power in Bern and attempted to nationalize Swiss banksand major properties, it very likely would invite the strenuous ... ...hat's what the whole game is starting to look like.”The story reports that geologists, petroleum experts, and Bush himself, when he was vice president... ...inst their own peoples. The billions of U.S. taxdollars that flow into the Swiss bank accounts of foreign autocrats could be better spent on humanserv...

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...mite on Mars volcanism confirmed its explosive past. The resident Martian geologists continued to examine the domia in situ sharing theirdata with sp... ...atory to test the minerals withbrand-new equipment. A handful of dedicated geologists were already in full swing andlooked up momentarily from their w... ...differences they shared mutualrespect and love for Earth. Dr Zac Bezzi, a Swiss medic, explained, ‘After the medical revolution the quality of lifeim...

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...ir fingersat us because our office is still run on PCs.They are surpassed by the geologists, who come inDecember, filling the place with an unusual ca... ...evishly Ithought, “Well, we are glad to be able to fulfill yourstereotype of the Swiss people.” He did a pretty goodimitation of glaring at me, but I ... ...rpromptness is perhaps not so bad after all.”Because of this I now know that the Swiss are quick toforgive, but a people harboring fine discernment wh...

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... named by distinguished anatomists whohad come before him, geographers and geologists of the bumpyplanetoid within the cranial orb. Like so many terre... ...r of Samadhi 225Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who had invented LSD in1939. While Hofmann's fame was based ... ...stock worth millions,might have been mistaken for a typically conservative Swissretiree, but for the wealth of experience reported in his book LSD,My ... ...his trademark jumpsuits, with acompass clipped to one breast pocket, and a Swiss army knifedangling from the other. Some curious San Franciscan in­qui... ...milar humility, Hofmann added for his own part, "I'mnot a guru, I'm just a Swiss chemist." The Prob­ ...

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... Over Wells' Millinery, Neckwear and Hosiery Wash, with Col. (ieorge W. Swiss 146-6 Bacon ex-'53, un... ...s' Millinery, Neckwear and Hosiery as was iiindo by the students, the Swiss TELEPHONE 146-5 Iirosider... ...er Streets. Dress Overcoats, Hats, Shoes, partment. W'illiittns Record: Swiss Milk TELEPHONE Over Wells' Millinery, Xo... ... Over Wells' Millinery, made or to measure; English Swiss SfCilk TELEPHONe 146-6 thos... ... 'juade or to measure; Kuglish and well. appreciated, we cannot Swiss Williamstown, Mass. ... ...nternationa! THE COSMa Frequently Congress of Geologists in 1906. The three...

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...ulgarians, Hungarians, Armenians, Russians, Greeks, Turks,French, English, Swiss, &c.][Footnote 6: Prince Jon Ghika says 87 mètres.][Footnote 7: Accor... ...he geological formations of the country. Little has beendone by the native geologists in this direction, and the knowledge whichwe possess is derived ... ...tfolio, 42 s. coloured, or 34 s.uncoloured.Enlarged Alpine Club Map of the Swiss and Italian Alps, on the Scaleof 3 English Statute Miles to 1 Inch, i...

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... creatures before they became extinct?’ ‘Yes, I was lucky. When I was seven, before I went to my Swiss boarding school in2042, my parents undertook... ...ted that my mother was broughtup by a nurse and tutors, and when she was seven, she was sent to the Swiss boardingschool I went to. Grandma was expect... ...ies, the Director of the Early Peoples’ Museum, with agroup of his rainforest people. He brought in geologists so we could find the ore we needed.And ...

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...tem, and the history of planetary atmospheres. Johannes Geiss, a leading Swiss scientist, was responsible for this experi-ment. The payload was manu... ...load was manufactured at Geiss’s University of Bern and waspaid for by the Swiss National Science Foundation.11 What is more, apart fromArmstrong’s co... ...Y: Forge Books, 2004), chap. 14. None of these sources mentions that the Swiss experiment was deployed before the American flag was unfurled. One ... ...se I was alerted to the existence of Geiss’s experiment by Peter Creola, Swiss and European statesman and space enthusiast: see Peter Creola, interv... ...cember 1945; F. L. Wattendorf, “Reports on Selected Topics of German and Swiss Aeronautical Developments,” June 1945, copy in Henry H. Arnold Pape... ... the Moon andEarth out of planetesimals. The Astrogeology Division, led by geologists EugeneShoemaker, Harold Masursky, and others, trained the Apollo... ...ker, Harold Masursky, and others, trained the Apollo astronauts to befield geologists, and the division even sent one of their own, Harrison “Jack”Sch... ... observationsof Mercury, Venus, and Mars until after Apollo—when planetary geologistswere primed and ready to apply the Apollo knowledge and technique... ... experimentsdesigned to establish how water ice bound in dirt (“regolith,” geologists callit) might interact with the thin Martian atmosphere. This co...

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...fChrist’s death.EarthquakeBy looking at annual layers ofsediment deposits, geologists are ableto know if and when past seismicactivities occurred. Sci... ... temple dedicated to Apollo was discovered near Geneva, or near the France-Swiss border. CERN, which is the world’s largest laboratory for particle ph...

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...t the 18thand 19th centuries Russia sent its leading topographers, geologists and miningengineers to Western Kazakhstan. In 1892, the... ... such ascale. The situation became easier after a strategic investor - the Swiss firm Glinkor- had come forward. It took some restructuring and mergin...

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...d’. The idea of a ‘shadow’ inside each of us was famously propoundedby the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. According to him, it is the deeper ‘darkside’... ... ocean today is proceeding on a greater and faster basis thananything that geologists can find in fossil records for the past 65 million years.Another...

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...ibbeanSea, and is reached from tlie norththrough the Windward Passage.Geologists rate the island of volcanicorigin. It is distinctly mountainous.... ...can company, which little resemblance between them and the latter. Geologists con-practically controls the fruit output of the island. ... ...n a notched pole, and is Switzerland. Some, in fact, look like Swiss chalets, except that invariably drawn up at night. Little ...

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... the Northwest African Air Forces level to its drop zone (DZ) near the Swiss border(NAAF ) under the leadership of Lt Gen Carl A. and a ir-d... ...d toward Sergeant Kay, the 1st SOS first sergeant, and__________ *PVO geologists north of the volcano saw two or more ash sources during increa...

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...nary story of thesecond great period of marine life, whichis known to your geologists as the Or-2.12. The bivalve gastropods…embrace... ...es wasproduced. And Urantian geologistshave very accurately deduced the variousstages of this developmen... ... thetimes of the third glacier, the first accord-ing to the reckoning of geologists. The64:1.5–6 ... ...cruel.The Finns believed that most trees wereoccupied by kind spirits. The Swiss longmistrusted the trees, believing they con-tained tricky spirits. ...

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...rising land. And all of these phenom- million years, designated by your geologists as the Cam-ena of land sinking and land rising were undramatic, ... ...ceful; the climate re- period of marine life, which is known to your geologistsmains mild and equable; the land plants are migrating far- ... ...s, particularly the ground of Great Lakes was produced. And Urantian geologistsmoraines, extend from the eastern seaboard north and have ve... ...ose descendants soon spreadglacier, the đrst according to the reckoning of geologists. over the entire continent from the ice in the north to the64:... ... kind spirits. ăe by. ăe ancients once believed that all winds were pro-Swiss long mistrusted the trees, believing they contained duced by the w...

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...could stop him. His imagina- tion is a volcano, and to do that which other geologists have never done he would risk his life. I will preserve silence.... ...te to acquire such renown? If that document were divulged, a whole army of geologists would be ready to rush into the footsteps of Arne Saknussemm.” “... ....” “Granted. But it is likewise the creed adopted by other dis- tinguished geologists, that the interior of the globe is neither gas nor water, nor an... ...l house, infected as it was. This worthy couple were fleecing us just as a Swiss innkeeper might have done, and estimated their imperfect hospitality ... ... forming the primitive foundation came out with increasing distinct- ness. Geologists consider this primitive matter to be the base of the mineral cru... ...s well, or abyss, was a narrow cleft in the mass of the granite, called by geologists a ‘fault,’ and caused by the un- equal cooling of the globe of t...

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...religions are true for me as Canterbury Cathedral is a true thing and as a Swiss chalet is a true thing. There they are, and they have served a purpos... ...ing, the engineers in their incessantly increasing variety, the miners and geologists estimating the world’s resources in metals and minerals, the mec...

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...ksman, more and better than a mere cool head; he was a type; he stands for Swiss patriotism; in his person was represented a whole people; his spirit ... ...is to a nail. Some prefer a nail at first. However, I like all the French, Swiss, German, and Italian domestic cigars, and have never cared to inquire... ...ers, astronomers, naturalists, claimants, impostors, chemists, biologists, geologists, philologists, college presidents and professors, architects, en...

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...ve been pre- served so well. In that strange island Iceland,—burst up, the geologists say, by fire from the bottom of the sea; a wild land of barrenne... ...n the Tenth of August he wonders why there is no man to command these poor Swiss; they would conquer if there were. Such a faith in Democracy, yet hat...

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...ys in my ears. And now I came to the land of wooden houses, innocent cakes, thin butter soup, and spotless little inn bedrooms with a family likeness ... ... at him, and I looked about at the disorderly traces in the mud, and I thought of the drops of rain and the footprints of an extinct creature, hoary a...

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... as vestry-meeting squabbles. Yet the great hate of the English and Scotch geologists has lasted now half a century, and has “left deep and abundant m... ... had come out to Ecuador to climb mountains, to replace one of their three Swiss guides who had fallen ill. He climbed here and he climbed there, and ...