Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky

Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky
Young Folks' Library, Volume XI
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Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky
Young Folks' Library, Volume XI
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Selections from the choicest literature of all lands; folk-lore, fairy tales, fables, legends, natural history, wonders of earth, sea and sky, animal stories, sea tales, brave deeds, explorations, stories of school and college life, biography, history, patriotic eloquence, poetry.

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compared with that of astronomy....

With regard to the great bulk of the globe little can be said. Very probably it is formed through and through of the same materials as the crust. This we do not know. Neither can we tell, even if it be so formed, whether the said materials are solid and cold like the outside crust, or whether they are liquid with heat. The belief has been long and widely held that the whole inside of the earth is one vast lake or furnace of melted fiery-hot material, with only a thin cooled crust covering it. Some in the present day are inclined to question this, and hold rather that the earth is solid and cold throughout, though with large lakes of liquid fire here and there, under or in her crust, from which our volcanoes are fed....

The materials of which the crust is made are many and various; yet, generally speaking, they may all be classed under one simple word, and that word is--Rock.

It must be understood that, when we talk of rock in this geological sense, we do n

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