paleologist

How these circles were produced is perhaps one of those primordial mysteries that the most skillful paleologist will never be able to explain.

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The retrospective glance of the latter covers a period of at least 11,000 years; and what is of infinitely more importance, it is that of a learned paleologist instead of a sensation-mongering empiric.