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WHY THE SEA IS SALT.
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isms largely abound, to prove that they result from the sediment deposited by the ocean in that age.

Throughout all geological time the sea has also received salt from the continents, for the rain, falling upon the land, filters through the layers of saliferous soil and, springing to the surface