Donnelly, Ignatius, 1831-1901 · New York, D. Appleton and Company · leaf 108
nd, the comet may, as describedin some of the legends, have struck the earth, head on,amid-ships, and the shock may have changed the angleof inclination of the earths axis, and thus have modified * Schellen, Spectrum Analysis, p. 392. THE CONSEQUENCES TO THE EARTH. 95 permanently the climate of our… … The Great Comet of 1811. might be the cause of those mighty excavations, hundredsof feet deep, in which are now the Great Lakes of Amer-ica, and from which, as we have seen, great cracks radiateout in all directions, like the fractures in a pane of glasswhere a stone has struck it. The cavities in…
Atlantis (Legendary place) · Drift · Comets
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