Penny Blood: Serial Sensation and Working-Class Entertainment — page 167: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

‘150 THE REVELATIONS OF THE PLUMB-LINE. {cu. xt. ocean bed’. “That part of the theory” (of unequal radial con- traction, which he proposes but we disbelieve*) “which shows that the wide ocean has been collected on parts of the earth’s surface where hollows have been made by the contraction and therefore increased density of the crust below, is well illustrated by the existence of a whole hemisphere of water, of which New Zealand is the pole, m stable equilibrium. Were the crust beneath only of the same density as that beneath the surround- ing continents, the water would be drawn off by attraction and not allowed to stand in the undisturbed position it now occu- pies.” The greater density must then clearly exist; but 1t will appear in the following chapter*®, that the phenomena are not sufficiently explained by supposing the lighter crust thinner, and the heavier substratum nearer the surface in those regions, 1 «Figure of the Earth.” 4th Ed, Art. 192, pp. 201, 202. commiclsoolkks (CO) 2° aa