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Excerpt from Outlines of Mineralogy, Geology, and Mineral Analysis, Vol. 2 of 2 It is evident, that whatever causes gave this oblate figure to the globe, have acted upon the solid as well as the fluid parts. The land, in a general point of view, is as much elevated at the equator as towards the poles. But, since the equatorial regions are 12 miles farther from the centre than the parts at the pole, it is obvious, that if the solid nucleus of the globe were a true sphere, the sea would be accumulated by the centrifugal force in the equatorial regions, which would have been completely submerged while the polar regions would have been left dry and elevated many miles above the level of the waters. The ocean would have formed a broad and deep zone round the equator, separating the two continents encircling the poles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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