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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: Siberia, of North America with Europe through Greenland, and of
South America with the antarctic continent through Graham Land.
In the Carboniferous map the whole globe-ocean floor and rifted
land mass alike - bore symbols of the Old Ones’ vast stone cities,
but in the later charts the gradual recession toward the antarctic
became very plain. The final Pliocene specimen showed no land
cities except on the antarctic continent and the tip of South
America, nor any ocean cities north of the fiftieth parallel of
South Latitude. Knowledge and interest in the northern world,
save for a study of coast lines probably made during long exploration
flights on those fanlike membranous wings, had evidently declined
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