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Foot-marks on stone! How plain and yet how strange! A bird track truly though of giant bulk, Yet of the monster every vestige else Has vanished. Bird, a problem thou hast solved Man never has: to leave his trace on earth To deep for time and fate to wear away.

Edward Hitchcock

Edward Hitchcock

Edward Hitchcock

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Born: May 24, 1793

Died: February 27, 1864 (aged 70)

Bio: Edward Hitchcock was an American geologist and the third President of Amherst College.

Known for:

Elementary geology (1840)
Catholic Child's First Communion Bible-OE
Proof: The Magazine of Virtuous Reality

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