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...before they reached their present altitude. But when we consider that, in fact, it was an intermitted movement — alternate upheaval and subsidence —...mountains and plains of South America, and died out ere man was created In those pre-Adamite times, long before the Incas ruled, the mastodon and the megatherium,...

...Pizarro. Supposing the Andes to have risen at this rate uniformly and without interruption. 70,000 years must have elapsed before they reached their...century. A long succession of brute races roamed over tlie mountains and plains of South America and died out ages ere man was created. In those pre-Adamite...

...in fact, it was an intermittent movement — alternate upheaval and subsidence — we must add ;in unknown number of millennia. Three times the Andes...America and died out ages ere man was created. In those pro-Adamite times, long before the Incas ruled, the mastodon and megatherium, the horse and the tapir,...

...altitude. But when we consider that, in fact, it was an intermittent improvement — alternate upheavel and subsidence — we must add an unknown number of...America and died out ages ere man was created. In those preAdamite times, long before the Incas ruled, the mastodon and megatherium, the horse and the tapir,...

...dogmatic opposition — sums up his impressions of the Peruvian relics in the following words: — "Three times the Andes sank hundreds of feet beneath the ocean level, and again were slowly brought to their present height. A man's life would be too short to count even the centuries consumed in this...