Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-02-26
SHIFTING OF THE EARTH'S POLES.
Theories Concerning Sudden Change ci
the Earth's Center Of Gravity.

the Earth's Center Of Gravity.
Those who oprs.e the theory of chang
ing polarity cndeavor to make one OF
their strong points in the allegation that
any polar accumulation of ice would be
entirely inadequate to so affect the earth
IN it's entirely as to demand changing
center of gravity These men deduce their
conclusion from the assumed premise that,
whether cool or hot, the interior of our
globe ia solid and dense throughout its
mass, and could this be proved it would
lie considerable obstacle in the way Of
what mny be termed the new theory.
they go 80 far as to calculate that the
central pressure in the earth's deep inte-
rior would be so intense as to greatly re-
.iuce the bulk of the hardest steel, and
having arranged their fanciful premises
they serenely rest and allow phenomena,
however antagonistic to such assumption,
to stand as unexplanable puzzles, to be
spccuated over, but under no circum-
stances to be allowed to interfere with
their prearranged ideas.
But the plain fact is that under the pres
snt deal five-sixths of the land is in the
northern hemisphere, and very much the
larger portion of water is found south of
the equator The evidence is indisputable
that at former period the water lay over
much of the present dry land in the north
ern hemisphere, the limestone formations
and the terraces high up the hillsides fur
nishing indubitable evidence of this. Was
this change slow or suddenY Around the
north pole, where for ages there has been
incessant frigidity, are the bones of myr-
lads of worlds Of former animals, tropical
and semitropical. How came they in such
vast profusion to herd in that inhospita-
bic cline. and when dissolution overlook
them was it prolonged or sudden? Their
carcasses are found imbedded in the arctic
ice, skin and flesh intact. even the eye
balls and stomach contents in a state of
perfect refrigeration. How came death so
suddenly that this flesh had no time to
decompose, and what was the agency that
so suddenly and so radically changed the
physical environment?
All the observed phenomena are as il
there had been sudden shift in the polar
points. In other words, none of the known
conditions is antagonistic to the theory OF
such polar changes.
Now. again recurring to the earth's in
terror. there is absolute proof that, what
ever the internal condition, there arc vast
UifsiS VI tbt SiSStiiS tlefntut. All liit UT
rifle volcanic outhursts attest this. Mauna
I.oa. Skap'ar, Jokul, Altna, Vesuvius,
krakatoa, all the volcanic chimneys, an
Gent and modern, have at times belched
incalculable quantities of gaseous matter
from their glowing Threats. Earthquake
phenomena make it clear that these gas
eous areas shift. and that as they change
location molten matter fills in in their
wake.
Now, in case Of long continued exter
nal loealization of avoirdupois, rs of po-
lar ice, there would necessarily he an in
side shifting of the heavier matter to the
same point and n shifting of the gaseous.
like a bubble in huge level. to the oppo-
site point, and thus between the outside
aud inside localization who shall say that
when once TIVE inside molten ocean thus
readjusts this is not a colossal factor in
impelling cataclysms on the aqueous sur
face, and that when the rocking exterior
aqueous seas and the shifting interior mol
ten seas have regained equilibrium the str
face shall not have undergone thorough
reorganization with n complete change in
the spheres polarity?
IL there one single feature in recognized
continental changes that is not in harmo
ny with this views Is there single fact
connected with the continental polar bone
yard and those refrigerated carcasses that
does not demand such solutions
What, then, is the inference? That the
prcglacial polar points were elsewhere.
That u shift finally began, not at once
overwhelmingly, but as tree cracks and
sways before it falls, there We're Fremont
tory indications-water slowly crowding
animal life forward. as does an Unframed
prairie fire; then at last IA pronounced tilt
rolling with Uncomfortable force. lifting the
polar ice caps to go forward and harrow
the earth. and. 10, when the new poles had
been determined the north pivotal point
was amid the crowded animal mass, and
suddenly, ere flesh could decay, polar ice
enveloped all in its frigid shroud.
just where the polar points were that
preceded the present ones may not be read
lily determined, and when they again
change. as they surely will, should the
new equatorial line pass over the present
antarctic ice cap when this, under torrid
conditions, had changed, what evidence
would there be OF the present pole in the
then equatorial ocean?
No one may know at what points the
mobile interior and the aqueous exterior
may find their reimbursement and both sue
ceeding poles may be located in the pres
ent oceans.--Pittsburg Dispatch.