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The world: (1848)
Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 261
amities, were not all a fiction. 258 WORLD. There is something startling in the idea that our earth, or rath-er its crust, is perhaps but a few hundred miles in thickness, orin other words, that our globe is a hollow ball of no very greatdimensions. It is a well established proposition that, under… … Hence, whether the interior of the hollow glob© be molten ornot, the mass will not be displaced, or in other words, it will haveno tendency to move, unless operated upon by other force thanthe attraction of gravitation. The name earthquake has been given to those convulsions ofsupposed igneous…Astronomy · Meteorology · Geology · Paleontology
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