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Show The World' Water The amount of water on the earth Is so large that the tinman mind can scarcely grasp its significance. According Ac-cording to scientific authorities, It Is 327,000,000 cubic miles. Rivers and lakes In all countries only total a mere million cubic miles, the remaining remain-ing 320,000,000 miles being taken np by the five great oceans Atlantic, Pacific, Pa-cific, Indian, Antarctic and Arctic, Scientists tell us that, if the earth were not composed of huge mountain -ranges which project above the surface sur-face of the oceans, and thus form the countries in which we live our globe would be covered with water to a depth of nearly two miles. |