Articles liés à John L. Stoddard's Lectures
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Sicily foreshadowed, long before mans advent on our globe, the mighty part that it would play in history. The Mediterranean had not then the aspect which it bears to-day. A cross its surface stretched two isthmuses, one of which severed it from the A tlantic, and joined Gibraltar with Morocco; the other, a thousand miles to the eastward, divided it into two great basins, and formed between them a gigantic causeway, eighty miles in length, connecting Sicily and Tunis. Of this not only do geology and deep-sea soundings furnish ample proof, but the discovery in Sicily of many bones of extinct tropical animals shows that these creatures formerly made their way by land from Africa to southern Europe. A sinking of the earth-crust caused at last these two partitions to subside; and while the A SICILIAN YOUTH, GRECIAN TYPE.
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