Penny Blood: Serial Sensation and Working-Class Entertainment — page 283: what you’re looking at

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266 DISTRIBUTION OF VOLCANOS. [CH. XXI. than we have concluded it to be, may not be without effect upon its equilibrium, such are the action of ocean currents and winds. Slight as is the momentum of a mass of water, moving with the velocity of an ocean current, as compared with the mass of crust upon which it may act, nevertheless its effect cannot be nil. And the same may be said of winds, which, on the average of the year, have definite directions over a given tract of continent, and their friction upon the surface cannot be quite inappreciable. These two causes cooperating, may have had some share in producing the peculiar form of the land masses of the globe. These are however questions which do not come within the scope of the present work. In bringing this volume to a conclusion, the reader is reminded that it deals with a great number of questions, each in a very superficial manner, and that indeed entire treatises might be written upon the subjects of some short chapters. The whole, with the exception of the attempt to account for the presence of water substance in the fluid magma, has been treated in a manner that can hardly offend the most strict disciple of the uniformitarian school. But there are phenomena which appear to require for their production causes hitherto unexplained, which must be looked for possibly outside the globe itself. Such are climatal] changes. Such is also the remarkable fact that the grand efforts of elevatory action appear to have been paroxysmal, and after slumbering for long ages, to have been more intense at certain periods; the last of which was subsequent to the Eocene. These questions are left for a rising generation of physicists and astronomers, who it is hoped may think the ascertained facts of Geology a worthy field for the application of exact scientific methods. NOOKS COLT @ (CO)