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The Rivers and Valleys of Pennsylvania.
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rising to an astonishingly even altitude, in spite of their great diversity of structure. Before the existing valleys were exca-

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vated, the upland surface must have been an even plain—the Cretaceous baselevel lowland elevated into a plateau. The valleys