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"Long before Noah fell adrift in the ark or Adam Was, forests were growing in Arizona just as in some parts they grow today, and it befell that in the course of time they lay prostrate and over them swept the waters of an inland sea. Aeons passed and the sands buried them deep; then the sea vanished and when these ancient logs were uncovered to the sight of the world that had forgotten them, the sybaritic chemistry of nature had transformed every one of them into chalcedony, topaz. carnelian, agate and amethyst." |
