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"No
one can say when the first record was made, but the story
through all of the ages is indelibly carved in the rock by the
feet and forms of the mummified dead that lie where
they
lived. Age after age, as the sea and the contended and the
species struggled to live,
the
drama of the world was faithfully recorded. Sometimes, to be
sure, the story is partly erased, sometimes it is lost beneath
subsequent records, but at some place or other in
Iowa
a fragment of each act may be found. The surface of Iowa is a
palimpsest of the
ages."
--John E. Briggs, The Palimpsest, 1920 |
