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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: if you ever read (as you will) Mr. Wallace's new book on the
Indian Archipelago, you will see what wonderful discoveries men
may make about such questions if they will but use their common
sense. You know the common pink heather--ling, as we call it?
Of course.
Then that ling grows, not only here and in the north and west of
Europe, but in the Azores too; and, what is more strange, in
Labrador. Now, as ling can neither swim nor fly, does not common
sense tell you that all those countries were probably joined
together in old times?
Well: but it seems so strange.
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