Amador ledger., 1907-05-10
COMMUNICATION.
Earthquake Theories.
By Fayette Mace.


present time. believe with Prof
See that the bed of the ocean sinks a
the time of an earthquake, which
causes those great tidal waves, which
threw the Spanish man-of-war into
the hills above Acapulco and the u
s. Steamship WateIee on the coast ot
Africa, and l believe with him that
the coast line is invariably raised
but 1t always happens to the western
coast. Now, l beg leave to offer other
reasons tor the facts which may differ
with Prot. See.
appreciate the compliment paid
to DR.. Newton's discovery of gravita-
tion in 1857; and | believe that dis
covery will explain the whole pheno-
mems. and yet DIR. Newton like
Columbus, died and never knew that
he had discovered a world.
believe that many of the great
mysteries of nature could be princi-
pally attributed to the cause of
gravitatlon, such as the light and
heat of the sun, the flow of the Gulf
stream and Japanese current, the
earthquake and the tidal wave. The
garvitation of the sun and moon IN
their course around the earth has a
tremendous pull on everything NOV
able or lmmovable. They attract an
immense volume of water from the
west coast of Africa and pile it up on
the east coast of America. The south
half follows those Iuminaries around
Cape Horn; the north half is
reservoired up in the Caribbean Sea
and the Gulf of Mexico. Through the
Gulf stream is the only way the
waters have to get back to the coast
OF Africa. A bottle dropped in the
Gulf stream has been known to find
its way to the coast of Africa, and
down the equator to the Caribbean
Sea, and out again through the Gulf
stream, thus forming the connecting
link in chain of evidence.
Now The molten matter under the
crust OF the earth is a liquid, and
when unobstructed will follow the
sun and moon the same as the tides.
do. Water will conduct heat faster
from anything placed in 1T than any
thing else, consequently under the
ocean has been cooled and hardened
to greater depth than Under the
land, thus under the eastern margin
of the Pacific ocean there is range
of inverted mountains, which OBJ
structs the flow of molten matter in
its western course The lifting
attraction of the SUE and moon raises
the surface and makes room for this
material. In time the strain becomes
so great that the surface cracks with
an upward motion. A counteracting
strain somewhere under the sea causes
another break with downward
motion. thus the great plank broken
off, the shore edge rising, and the sea
edge settling causes the earthquake
and the tidal wave. That there is
continual flow of molten matter
under the surface of the earth, and
that in the downward break of the
crust in an earthquake, large quanti-
ties of granite rock in fragments are
precipitated into the molten matter
below is proved by the fact that
whenever an eruption occurs, the lava
is filed with fragments of granite
worn smooth and round by erosion,
and 1t would not be strange under
this theory, as Prof. See asserts that
the mountains appear to be hollow.
They may be likened to a blister
drawn under the skin; the material
which fills the space is not so heavy
as the sskln above or the flesh below
the boil. Then again how can we
account for the eastern coast of
America settling several inches every
hundred years only from the fact that
the missing matter has been drawn
west by the attraction of the sun and
moon, and has built up the Sierra
Nevada and coast ranges of noun
taihs, for the time will come when
Boston, will go down and take its
place by Atlantis at the bottom OF
the sea. The FaralIones are elected
from the outside break in the crust
of the earth and they will in turn
become the coats range of mountains,
and other FaralIones will be thrown
up beyond and so on to the Sandwich
Islands. "But the world does move. u
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