From: "Andy Robertson" 
Subject: Re: (urth) RE: Digest from  urth@urth.net
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 09:05:01 -0000

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" 


> There is an interesting comment, and I cannot for the life of me remember
> whether it is somewhere in tBotNS or, perhaps, Castle of the Otter - but
> Wolfe-or-his-narrator comments that each of the continents of [Earth|Urth]
> has a racial "type" which is proper to it, and that whoever colonizes that
> continent winds up conforming to that type in about two thousand years.
>

It is on BONS somewhere.  I always wondered at that.  How come the
inhabitants of this future South America are (mostly) European and white,
even blond?

    hartshorn




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