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THE work done by the Sea is infinitely various, immeasurable in quantity and of inexpressible value to the inhabitants of the earth. It is the one ceaseless worker, never resting and ever accomplishing the tasks it has to perform. The land and the sea may appear to some to be for ever fixed and unalterable, and the map of the world represents to them the geography of the globe of 6,000, or 60,000 years ago, the geography of to-day, and the geography of 60,000 years hence. Still not only does Geology show by the testimony of the far-distant past the impossibility of this being so; but it has been given to man to see and record the constant rising and falling of the land, within the periods of history and even to measure the movement with sufficient accuracy and such certainty as to enable him to venture predicting, to some extent, on the probable geography of the future.
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WHITAKER, C. The Work of the Sea . Nature 1, 381–382 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/001381b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/001381b0