It has been computed by geographers that if the sea were emptied of its waters and all the rivers of the earth wore to pour their present floods into the vacant space, allowing nothing for evaporation, 40,000 years would be required to bring the water of the ocean up to its present level.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 2, 27 September 1922, Page 8
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