The Dawn of Canadian History - Stephen Leacock - Książki - Independently Published - 9798687518932 - 26 lutego 2021
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The Dawn of Canadian History

Stephen Leacock

The Dawn of Canadian History

Book Excerpte piercing beams of the sun. Slowly the earth cooled, until great masses of solid matter, rock as we call it, still penetrated with intense heat, rose to the surface of the boiling sea. Forces of inconceivable magnitude moved through the mass. The outer surface of the globe as it cooled ripped and shrivelled like a withering orange. Great ridges, the mountain chains of to-day, were furrowed on its skin. Here in the darkness of the prehistoric night there arose as the oldest part of the surface of the earth the great rock bed that lies in a huge crescent round the shores of Hudson Bay, from Labrador to the unknown wilderness of the barren lands of the Coppermine basin touching the Arctic sea. The wanderer who stands to-day in the desolate country of James Bay or Ungava is among the oldest monuments of the world. The rugged rock which here and there breaks through the thin soil of the infertile north has lain on the spot from the very dawn of time. Millions of years have probably elapsed since the cooling of th

Media Książki     Paperback Book   (Książka z miękką okładką i klejonym grzbietem)
Wydane 26 lutego 2021
ISBN13 9798687518932
Wydawcy Independently Published
Strony 54
Wymiary 152 × 229 × 3 mm   ·   86 g
Język English  

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