Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Puzzle of Life and How It Has Been Put Together: A Short History of the Formation of the Earth, With Its Vegetable and Animal Life, From the Earliest Times, Including an Account of Pre-Historic Man, His Weapons, Tools, and Works
The additions to the text consist chie?y of a more extended account of the deposi tion of chalk and other deep-sea formations, founded on the results of the Challenger and Tuscarora expeditions, and a sketch of the earth-works of the Ohio mound-builders and the stone monuments of Easter Island. Examples of pre - historic art and lake-dwel lings have been added to the illustrations.
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