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The valley about here and the site of the inn at which I am now writing must once have been covered by at least eight hundred or a thousand feet in thickness of solid ice

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Funding This work was supported by the CONACyT (Grant Number 255478) and by DGAPA-PAPIIT (Grant Number IN206517)