| Show why dry land ito IN increasing an essential cause of increase of dry land is the decrease dee reibe of the ocean itself in consequence of infiltration of water through the crust of the earth which is a kind of porous mass into which the liquid element percolates by innumerable fi figures bures taking possession of the depths and directing itself slowly toward the penter center as tho the internal int erual fire diminishes and the crusts crack open in consequence it is understood that the activity of volca volcanoes noea wid and many earthquakes is largely due to this inevitable penetration of the water which internal heat transforms into vapor under pr arcs esmire sure some ceolo gits think that the primitive ocean hiis has hii s already in this wily way pue fiftieth of its if pio Po popular pilIar SA aico 1 |
