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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne: period, these shales, limestones, and sandstones. We are turning away
from the primary granite. We are just as if we were people of Hamburg
going to Lubeck by way of Hanover!"
I had better have kept my observations to myself. But my geological
instinct was stronger than my prudence, and uncle Liedenbrock heard
my exclamation.
"What's that you are saying?" he asked.
"See," I said, pointing to the varied series of sandstones and
limestones, and the first indication of slate.
"Well?"
"We are at the period when the first plants and animals appeared."
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