The Hollow Earth

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. To demonstrate the size of icebergs, fields of ice and glaciers. Ocean depths, different estimates of. The character of volcanic eruptions respecting material thrown out and final result of filling with water. For evidences of how long heat will remain when covered after great fires, the same as in old times when people covered the backlog, and to show the reason for judging the interior to be molten when the heat is developed at insignificant depths by friction leading it to a further volcanic development, or else from a extinct volcano from long time past. Artesian Waters, Caverns, Earthquakes, Gulf Streams, Lakes, Springs, Wells, Islands, etc. This appendix is added showing cases something in harmony with the arguments here presented on all these subjects, to which could be added several times as many more. While most of the points intended for a brief discussion in this book have been hit upon, a few words, with some newspaper clippings on mysterious things, are thought best to be added as a sort of appendix, and of such a character as to prove of benefit to some readers that see fit to avail themselves of a few hints to obtain water, for domestic or irrigating purposes, in an easy way, and where they would naturally least expect to find it. At my old home, on the farm where I was born, our well, some thirty feet deep, nearly every season went dry. I have lugged hundreds of pails of water from neighbors' wells and from a spring near the foot of the hill, one-third of a mile away, during my early life. The hill is little over a half mile long, and less than one-fourth a mile wide from its furthest bases. It is shaped like a box turtle, rising 1oo feet or more. There used to be a place near the top, on the east slope, that looked springy. The ...