ocr: 9 O A FIRST OBSERVATIONS THE CANALS OFI MARSI "Trying to fill the 'canals' with a meager surplus of water, OBSERVATIONST OFSPACE RROBES and channel it from one side of the equator to the opposing hemisphere across harsh deserts and beneath a cloudless sky, as Mr. Lowell describes, would be more the work of madmen than intelligent beings. We can be absolutely certain that every single drop of this water would evaporate ors seep into the soil in the first 150 kilometers." As far as Wallace was concerned, there could be no intelligent life on Mars. But, he made no sionouncement on the possible ex ...
