Part 18

Upheaval and depression, 36, 38

Vegetable part, the, 56

Vertebrata, 101

Volcanoes and earthquakes, 19

Water, a powerful tool of Nature, 34, 45; thrown out of the earth, 54

Weapons, early, 121; and tools, where found, 131

Whales, 101

World, early history of the, 3, 4; size and shape, 17; materials of, 17; heat of, 18

Work, the, of time, 167

Writing, origin of, 123; Mexican, Egyptian, and Assyrian, 124, 125; on papyrus, 125; by signs, 125

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