THE BEGINNING OF THE END

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 19, 11 January 1878, Page 2

THE BEGINNING OF THE END

Tho following is an extract from oqp of Profossor Gunning's papular looturos, Whioli httfo boon drawing lafgo audiences in San Francisco :—'• Tho globe was, first cooled nt tho cqro by pressuro and thon at the burfoco by radiation, leaving be [ween a rnplton In coolinß largo i» 4epofl%dW Imq)onso <|Uantitios, cuu?r ing a ddfftpßßion of tho earth's crust to*-vp-a'fds ttyq molten, 2 pno, Tnpn comes tho reaction, and mou,n,tainfj nrp thrown up On tho sqrfuco of the earth. Sometimes tljp great weight of mountains cnuHos tl»qir bottoms to fall into tho niolton zinc, where thoy aro molted ui}ii tin; prosjsiii'o caused by tho stoani gcnoratii^ from tlje wntor which fiulq its wuyfroii) thq surfnco of thd cartlj'9 cri^f, tln'otrs it up through Hio oponiugs, called cru^or.s it] tho form of hvi\ t Som,otin|o;i tho foro 1 ? forn^od in tho onrth cunn^t find vent through a orator, and cai'thqinikcq tiro Iho result. Tho earth in linv> will cool from the i»u.rfnoo inwnrd until tho solid o:ust moots tho sjlul core. Then, then) will ho no tnorp of tho reactions which oiuho mountains roln.mQos, hat thu world will bo soljti, cold, dead. Thou (ho doiiil world, lilcu a dead man, mtiy crnmhlo tuu) % to other u\ )bos in tho sumo form us t\ portion of othor worlds burn dii'd, «nd I'ii He n tons in tho form of inJieoric •itcmss,* 1