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In contemplating these brown masses a host of strange
fancies, speculations and queries crowd upon one. Did man or the
aerolites first arrive in that inhospitable region? If the former,
and the aerolites fell in the long, dark winter night, what terror
the detonations, the blinding glare, and the earthquake shock of
their fall,must have caused among the poor savages cowering in
their shaking stone and turf huts. Would it be strange if they
had thought that the sun itself had broken loose and was falling
upon the earth and that the earth was breaking up under the shock
like one of their own icebergs.
If the aerolites fell in summer how the seals must have
plunged for the water and the Polar bears rushed at full speed
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