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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
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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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