Word: drier
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Dates: during 1892-1892
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...line of advance in study of geography, a wakening an interest in the structure of land and the causes of its various forms which could never be felt in the mere names, boundaries and inhabitants of countries. Such study of itself carries interest into these drier facts, fixing names in the memory as denoting the regions of the various peculiarities of land-formation. In late years the knowledge of the more irregular parts of our continent has much advanced and consequently that of the whole structure, since the mountain regions give the main clues to the great geological movements. They...