Giovanni Schiaparelli

… the melting of the snows [on Mars] accumulated at that pole during the long night of ten months … is diffused
around the circumference of the snowy region, converting a large zone of surrounding land into a temporary sea and
filling all the lower regions. … The outer part of this zone branches out into dark lines … and seem to be distributary canals …
the canals are such in fact and not only in name. The network formed by these was probably determined in its origin in the
geological state of the planet… It is not necessary to suppose them the work of intelligent beings … we are now inclined to
believe them to be produced by the evolution of the planet, just as on the earth we have the English Channel and the channel of Mozambique.

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