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There are oceans and seas also marked upon these moon-maps, but they were named at a time when it was not yet known that they were great plains; for, as I told you, no trace of water, cloud, or even mist has been discovered there.

But the indomitable will of the man, to whose wishes neither oceans nor deserts opposed successful barriers, finally triumphed, and the coveted treasures fully repaid their price as they glistened in the gaslight, perfect as their prototypes slumbering on the bosom of the Nile, under the blazing midnight stars of rainless Egypt.

But Chick scarcely noted the beauty of the place. His attention flew at once to something for which he longed an immense globe. Chick spun it around eagerly upon its axis. The first thing that he looked for was San Francisco or, rather, North America. If he was on the earth he wanted to know it! Surely the oceans and continents would not change. But he was doomed to disappointment.

She has no fortune, but there is oceans of money on his side oceans." Bessie did not jump to the conclusion that it was therefore a mercenary marriage, as she had done in another case.

I have already given my reasons for disbelieving in continental extensions within the period of existing species on so enormous a scale that all the many islands of the several oceans were thus stocked with their present terrestrial inhabitants. This view removes many difficulties, but it does not accord with all the facts in regard to the productions of islands.

"It doesn't ever happen in books," said Arethusa, seriously, "and they're supposed to be just like things really are, aren't they? I've read just oceans of love-stories. I just adore them!" she added, with emphasis. Ross's smile broadened. "But truth, they say, is stranger than fiction," and he was about to add something to Arethusa's further mystification, when the automobile stopped.

Just north of the Spanish possessions in America was a wide inlet leading straight through from the Pacific to the Atlantic, which an old Greek pilot named Juan de Fuca said he had traversed for the viceroy of New Spain. Even stolid-going England was infected by the rage for imaginary oceans and continents.

For this He came to be called by the name of Consciousness. He has all created things for his body and He is their Creator. These five elements that we see are that Brahman of great energy. The mountains are his bones. The earth is his fat and flesh. The oceans are his blood. Space is his stomach. The Wind is his breath. Fire is his energy. The rivers are his arteries and veins.

He had joined the fishers because he believed that plenty of food, tea, and tobacco would be going amongst them. He was not mistaken. "You will come to my tent," he said, in the wealth of his hospitality; "we have plenty of good fish, a very little meat, some tobacco, and oceans of tea!" The six visitors accepted the invitation, and were soon made acquainted with all the gossip of the community.

From this coign of vantage a long reach of the river was visible, and Tom sitting there would watch the fleets of passing vessels, and let his imagination wander away to the broad oceans which they had traversed, and the fair lands under bluer skies and warmer suns from which they had sailed.