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Show KL laM lit lha raalar ..( Ilia I alllu HII f Oeololits are airmvl that the Interior HjuV of Uie earth Is lanrcly couioaol ot HU" metals. Whereas the surface matter nt aHKi "" I'ln,t "''l'' uniT about two and HjICrs one-half times as much as water, it Is UjsC known as a fact that toward the center HHj tho Average wtlht of things Is eluven times thut ot waler. Tills Is due to the HBH ctrcuniitauco that while this sublunar HBHfl orb was cooling and rondonalng the bender jurtlclcs sought the middle Therefore It Is probable that the great HBVB loars of the sphere Is Iron. HHH Hut there are otlitr metals moru UV heal than iron, an 1 theso would nut- PHVi urill form an accumulation lminnll- HKf ntil about the ccnlir of the (.lobo, HHHj Among them ma bo mentluniKl, as j moatluiportant,rold. (Ieololt(lllUrl, Bn ol the geological survey, Ml 1 lha other MHIJ du that he would rather ciiioct to find sHJlJ a mat accumulation uf gold at thut I J point than anwhere rite, hit notion V Wing that such of the yillow metal at I It found on tho surfacoot the earth Is HHK onl an accidental dctrlius. HH llowevcr, thero are two or thrco iub Hw stances known meii 1 loru nclghi than S gold, and one nf them Is platitniin, HBn which has doubled In niarkit vuluo HBH within the lut ear or two, ovtln to HU the Increased c,t ot production. H Washington btar, |