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Show MISSOURI IS ANCIENT. i Alpl Ar Infanta fninparad With the Ai-of Ai-of tha lltarka. Men te:ik III ivotiilcl'flll word of tlif) liciiuty of .hint, of lite Brnildour of i:ctc.t, of the ii we lii'li Ins ennyoii of Hie Ken, of the Andes nn.l lite All-; lint no m ill h.is ever looked lipoll .1 sc.. tie ii.nie Ineitlve In thoimlit null ITor.iim.l inc.lil.ltive linn it;n I lull tli'tn the niched hill of the lower ur.tirk. II,- wlo i-llmlts tit." Jura stiiuds "I""' n unk of the modern world. 1ml the mil is who slillld upon the hlclilillnH of tlr.iitk Comity looka upon hind o old that the linilu liecouips wonry In at-leniptliig at-leniptliig lo ineii-u.e Its nu-e. Ihoiiih uiensiueineiil he tunil - In eiioch-not In thousands or years, sn.rs the HI. I-otil llepuhlle. The Illinnlnyn .Mounlrlin Imve, ditrltiit some thoiiannda or mil-lions mil-lions of yenrs, ioureil llielr deposlls In-In In-In (lint hotly uf wn'or which we know aa China Sea, nntl hy llllln the Imain of Hint sea have depoalted so nittcli n tin v linn Hint the Umpire ot China, with Its untold populutlon. now occupies occu-pies the apnee over which the water once 'Howed iinrer.tinlned. lxiok to your ninps, and note how lnrgo the lowlands of China are: conjecture the depth of the alluvium deposit In toe lowlands and then comprehend, If y.tt cnn. the ages during which the Ulna-Itiya Ulna-Itiya Mntiiitnlns have lieen httsy tilling tip tho lissln of Hie aea, and by wash of tho tides and overflow of the rlrcnt tin Mil I li a the Innd of China aa we knn It lii-dny. The lirnln wearies of tin effort. We are Incapable of conipr hendlug such almost Infinite time; alt , yet we know the mountain ranges at , Asia are the youngest ninmitaln rniiKet i on earth, and that Ihe lowlands of China tielong to Ihe Inst dnys. Wo mnjr ginsp n suggestion of facta by comp.irls.ili, sometime.. If the Ulninlnyns are the youngest the ' arks nro Hip oldest of Ihe mountain ranges, and between the ilntes which gnvo them birth the Itorky Mountains, the Appiilnclilnns, the Apennines, Hie Alps, tho' Amies, t lie Novndna, H e Clr-cnsslnns, Clr-cnsslnns, the Cnurnstis, the grenl tnnuntnln ranges of Australia and Africa linil birth. Yet these were not rented tuddculy by anine continent ere-ntlng ere-ntlng explosion, hut slowly, surely, tenderly, ten-derly, ns It becomes mother earth to U.veloLi her glnnt children. |
