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ORIGIN OF MOUNTAIN RANGES.
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CONCLUSION.

After this rapid discussion of alternative theories in which we have found them all untenable, we return again to the contractional theory, not indeed with our old confidence, but with the conviction that it is even yet the best working hypothesis we have.

Joseph Le Conte.

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