In the course of this short tour, I became convinced that we must turn…

Charles Lyell
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In the course of this short tour, I became convinced that we must turn to the New World if we wish to see in perfection the oldest monuments of the earth's history, so far at least as relates to its earliest inhabitants. ✨ Sir Charles Lyell (1845). Travels in North America, in the Years 1841-2: With Geological Observations on the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia, p.15
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