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It took about two hundred million years for the continents to drift apart and produce the present distribution of continents and oceans on our planet.

Evidence suggests that the earliest peoples came to the two American continents at least 12,000 years ago, probably via the Bering Strait.

There are seven continents on the earth.

Thoreau once suggested, "Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

" The Olympic symbol is made up of five interlocking rings, standing for the continents of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and North America.

It took about two hundred million years for the continents to drift apart and produce the present distribution of continents and oceans on our planet.

drill Others are wafted away by every rise of the wind and carried for days and finally settle down, it may be, in other states and continents from those in which they started.

And if this be so with regard to a new continent on this earth, why should it be different with regard to the continents of another planet?

Those at the back of the room could not see anything of them, and only represented the broadest features of the diagram, the continents and seas.

On the contrary it seems strange that of the Huns alone, whose horsemen swept over whole continents from the Asiatic highlands like a thunderstorm, such trouble had not become known either through the numerous authors of the eastern and western Roman empire or from Gallia.

The above theory thus briefly presented to account for the climatic changes of the high southern latitudes is in full accord with the simple workings of nature as carried on to-day; and it is probable that the formation of continents and oceans, as well as the earth's motions in its path around the sun, have met with little change since the cold era iced the lands of the high latitudes.

But the local Venus's flytrap (Dionaea muscipula), gathered only from the low savannas in North Carolina to entertain the owners of hothouses as it promptly closes the crushing trap at the end of its sensitive leaves over a hapless fly, and the common sundew that tinges the peat-bogs of three continents with its little reddish leaves, belong to a distinct class of carnivorous plants which actually masticate their animal food, depending upon it for nourishment as men do upon cattle slaughtered in an abattoir.

It was he who raised aloft the waters which cut out these ravines; it was he who planted the glaciers on the mountain-slopes, thus giving gravity a plough to open out the valleys; and it is he who, acting through the ages, will finally lay low these[191] mighty monuments, rolling them gradually seaward- Sowing the seeds of continents to be; so that the people of an older earth may see mould spread and corn wave over the hidden rocks which at this moment bear the weight of the Jungfrau.

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