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The Puzzle of Life and How It Has Been Put Together · Arthur Nicols — chapter 17 of 19 · ~152 words · public domain

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Past life, the signs of, 13

Peat, 70

Plan of creation, 117

Plants of coal forests, 63

Plesiosaurus, 85

Pottery, 141, 142

Pre-historic art, 133; drawings, 135; man, 127, 131; weapons and tools, 129

Pterodactyl, derivation of, 89; description of, 90

Puzzle, the framework of, 1-16; parts of, where found, 5

Pyrenees, when raised, 100

Rain-drops, marks of, 84

Reindeer, drawing of, on slate, 135

Reptiles, the age of, 81

Rhinoceros in England, 105

Rocks, raising of the; how placed, 21, 25; carried by ice, 48

Sandstone, formation of, 25, 26; Old Red, 62, 81; New Red, 77

Slate hardened mud, 15

Sponges, 15, 78

Star-fish, 78

Stone age, 128; first stone age, 137; second, 138; of New Guinea and New Zealand, 143, 145

Subsidence, 37

Succession of formations, 41, 42

Sucklers, 102

Sunlight, fossil, 73

Tertiary period, 34, 100

Time, the work of, 167

Tools, polished and rough, 139

Trilobite, 78

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