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• There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
  -- Mark Twai...
• In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles.
  Therefore ... in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long ....
• Quote #331 "In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles.
  That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year....