Penny Blood: Serial Sensation and Working-Class Entertainment — page 160: what you’re looking at

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cu, x1.] THE REVELATIONS OF THE PLUMB-LINE. 143 consider the latter as gradually evolved out of the former: so that, even if there is no present range of sufficient altitude to be dignified as a mountain chain, such must have at some former time existed. We also see why a range of mountains as a rule skirts an ocean shore, or at least did so when it was first formed. And _ we also see why it usually presents its steeper face towards the ocean. It is not a little remarkable that popular expressions, even when grounded on no scientific basis, have often a foundation in truth which justifies them, Such an expression is that which speaks of the “roots of the mountain.” This is amply justified by our theory; for every mountain must possess a corresponding protuberance projecting downwards into the fluid substratum. These roots of the mountains, though they cannot be seen, . can in a most remarkable manner be felt by the plumb-line; and this certainly affords a strong support to the truth of our theory. “The attraction of the Himalaya Mountains, and of the elevated regions lying beyond them, has a sensible influence upon the plumb-line in North India. This circumstance has been brought to light during the progress of the great trigono- matrical survey of that country. ‘It has been found by triangu- lation that the difference of latitude between the two extreme stations of the northern division of the arc,” that is, between Kalianpur and Kaliana, “is 5° 23’ 42-294, whereas astronomical observations shew a difference of 5° 23’ 37058, which is 5’°236' less than the-former*.” The latitude of Kalianpur is 24° 7’ 11” and that of Kaliana 29° 30° 48”.® It having thus appeared that the plumb-line was attracted at the station near the mountains in a direction towards the 1 s;This is the difference as stated by Colonel Everest in his work on the measurement of the meridianal are of India published in 1847, See p. clxxviii.’’ 2 «On the Attraction of the Himalaya Mountains, and of the elevated regions beyond them-upon the Plumb-line in India.” By the Venerable John Henry Pratt, M.A., Archdeacon of Calcutta. Phil. Trans, of Royal Soc. Vol. 145, p. 53. $ Ibid, p. 56. CONNEC OOO @ (CO)