Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-10-28
G GEbLoGIcAL.

TO the Editors Of the NdiondL lnteuyencer:
GENTLEMEN The following /" BIT from my Notebook"
may be without interest to some of your readers 1t
has been called forth from myNote-Boo mean) by
Mr.. MILLss speculatns upon he origin of the Deluge,
published in your last weekly ifue:
The nucleus of ous planet in a state of igneous
fuidity.
This, if not an established certainty, to be
opinion SO well founded thai is allowed to pass for
one of the facts in phyics hen, what might have been
the cause or causes, Of ts state The only answer
which have seen is that kch may be gathered from
such as follows:
Although at the surce the temperature of the earth
is solely dependant upon radiatng power of the sum-
vet it is found that it atains within itself of
heat which, in ares excessively remote, must have re-
tanned the general mao Of all the constituents of the
mineral globe in igneqs liquefacton" American Edi
tion of Kane's clemens Of Chemistry, page los.
And, LIST. The original and general huidity Of the
mass of our planet ppears to be demonstrated by its
form spheroid ofrotation I'd The increasing tenn
perature at increasing depths below the earhs surface
indicates gneous uson the probable cause Of this or
gnal uidity of ournucleus and nfers its continuance
even to the present lay We consider the lowest granite
rocks Of ScandinsvS and Canada as the .cooed-down
masses of the universal gneous bases Throughout the
fuzsds nucleus continued 10 shsttr the growing
which yibrsted On as surface; and, the Incumbent
masses shrunk dsr gradual refrigeration, the pressure
thus occasoned operated an additional force
to prorude streams and OF erupve grantoid lava
from the great central reservoir Geology of Russia"
in the London Quarterly Review for March, 1846.)
Now, granting it to be according to predetermined
law of Nature that ball If fire. Of the dimensions indi
Gated all at starts whiring in its orbit and ques-
tioning at all the legitimacy Of the agents which are
bring about the cooling what is going to be the result
of the mater The refrigeration that was then going on
is going on STILL and viii continue to go on towards the
CENTRE till poor planet shall have frozen completely
up, sealed as solid as the Book of Fate.
And, afterward how is coming to pass that event in
expectation of which the whole world is waiting-the
conHagraton spoken Of in Scripture To be sure it is
in the power Of Him who has created the universe to
cell into existence sufficient for this end means
which shall be expressly for the accomplishment Of it.
It is possible for him so order thingsrather to
break up the order ofhingstha the "fery overthrow
shall come through the nstrumentality Of electricity,
Dick or through that Of comet, placed in ambush
upon the path of the unwary Earth to rob her Of her
nitrogen TPoe But the Creator has not to resort to
pedents for the carrying out Of his plans He works by
rule. There has not been, end there will not be-
movement in the machinery Of the universe that had not
its spring set in the beginning.
NY hypothesis The Sun is q burning body, from
which has sprung the matter which composes the Earth
well as that composing the other bodies Of the solar
system. This matter was originally in the gaseous form
By an action among its partcesan action brought with
it from it's source and which may be ikened to that
employed in producing rain, snow aeroltes, and such
nucleus collected which nucleus continued to gather to
itself matter from the gaseous mass, till it became the
Earth, ,riM form and not podthe Earth, spheroid Of
rotation with it's diversified surface andts mutudinous
The rotation had its beginning at the union Of the two
6rst molecules in the fashioning Of the nucleus.
The increase of the body commenced and continued
in the direction Of the motion out of which
grew this rotationhat is from the centre towards the
equator rather than towards the poles hence pherod
instead of sphere.
As the process Of formation went on, actions and
combinations Of actions about which gave different
the gas particles, thereby causing the
diversity in FORM color and quality Of the materials COM
posing the Earth.
By further combinations end notifications Of motion
vegetable and animal organisms became at length de-
with their power of growth and a
bty decay and animals with their springs Of life and
their seeds Of death.
Again. the Sun is the source of all these He has acted
the upbuding Of the majestic Earth, has brought to
ier beauty and life and gladness The Sun will be
he agent for the Earths overthrow His heat falling
lpon the surface is transmitted inward in virtue Of the
conducting power of the ground and thus, each summer
thin layer Of elevated temperature moves inward,
Kanes Chemistry page LOG which heat accumulating
the centre, has resulted in the gneous quefacton Of
ur nucleus, and which win result ultimately in the melt
ng Of the elements, and in the passng avay Of The Earth as
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