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Re:Map Shows How a Location Has Changed over the Past 750M Y... by arethuza on Monday September 09, 2019 @10:31AM (#20918524)
"On us who saw these phenomena for the first time, the impression made will not easily be forgotten... The mind seemed to grow giddy looking so far into the abyss of time..."

John Playfair on the work of his friend the geologist James Hutton who first realised the incredible age of geological features.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hutton

Of course, Playfair lived in Edinburgh - "this dream in masonry and living rock".

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