| Show LAST CHANCE FOR EXPLORERS while the outside of the world Is cleaned up there it Is still 1 the inside I 1 have had the idea for come some time I 1 past writes rites camille Flam marion in the strand of sinking a shaft into i the earth for the express purpose of exploration descending as f fir ar below the surface as the utmost resources resource a of modern science would permit the first result would be to obtain an inexhaustible source of heat which might be distributed and applied to industrial purposes pur posts according to the moat most authentic estimates the boiling point will be found at a depth of about two miles without doubt we e should also dis dig cover coer springs of hot water like which were found during the construction of the simplon tunnel in n 1103 I 1 93 avith with a temperature of 48 to 53 deg dekee p a centigrade ve c should also come upon subterranean rivers and caa cas catica might be employed as a mothe motive power the second result woud would be the el ex of this thia unknown world itself acho hu knows what curlo attles of geol ogy agy and might be revealed by this investigation into these dark abysses of tho the earth what mines of or iron of copper of precious metals such as gold Pla platinum ihor radium and of i lenient hit hitherto berto un known and unsuspected this idea has bean forcibly re called to my attention la in con of the tho recent earth earthquake quaLes and the fx ex contradictory opinions of geol goal ogusta upon the interior state of the globe ie Is this globe liquid or solid arom the most ancient times men have considered the problem under nil all its bearings without hiving succeeded in lighting upon any satis balls factory solution the railway tunnels which pierce the mountains have done no more than the inequalities of or the cruet crust of the earth the deepest shaft which penetrates the earth waa was co con n strutted ted between 1893 and 1902 1002 at near and Is about a tulle mile and a quarter in depth scarcely more than an in int scratch upon the surface of our globe |
