Penny Blood: Serial Sensation and Working-Class Entertainment — page 201: what you’re looking at

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184 EXTRAVASATION OF WATER, ETC. [cn. x1v. If however a radial contraction of 42 miles would have been sufficient to have produced the whole of the existing inequali- ties, it 1s difficult to understand how the cause now alluded to can have been without appreciable effect. We are there- fore tempted to suggest, that the apparent want of relation between the areas of compression and the axis of rotation favours the idea, so strongly supported by phenomena of cli- matal changes, that the latitudes of places on the earth’s surface are liable to change, a change which would be impossible were the earth solid, but which with a fluid substratum is brought within the range of possibilities, COMIC OOOKS.EO