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The Puzzle of Life and How It Has Been Put Together · Arthur Nicols — chapter 13 of 19 · ~149 words · public domain

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Bogwood, 70

Boiling springs, 54

Bronze, age of, 161, 162; implements in British Museum, 162

Brighton Downs, 99

Burning mountains, 19

Calamites, 42, 68

Cañons of Colorado, 8

Caves of Engis and Cromagnon, 163; near Belfort and of Switzerland, 141; of the Vezère, 139

Cetiosaurus, 86

Chalk, nature of, 26; pits, 20; ammonites and foraminifera in, 27; period, 95; under the ocean, 29, 99

“Challenger” expedition, 27

Changes have been gradual, 43

Cissbury camp, 134

Clay, London, 21, 22; and mud, 33

Climate, Arctic, and of coal formations, 67

Club-mosses, 61

Clothing, 138

Coal beds, 31; in Arctic regions, 67; plants of the, 63; is fossil wood, 73; is sunlight compressed, 30

Colorado, the people in, 142

Compressed plants, 15

Conclusion, 168

Cookery, 137

Corals, 78

Creation, the plan of, 117

Cretaceous period, 96

Cromagnon and Engis, caves of, 163

Dawn of life, 56; plant, 59

Denudation, 49, 50

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