A GREAT DROUGHT.
E.chard A. Proctor sajs tfcftt the age of the earth is placed by som* at 500,000.000 years, and still other, of later time, among than 10,000,000, knowing what prooenes hare been gone through. The earth matt bite become old. Newton lurmiaed ■!- | »ough he could giTeno reason, for it, that the earth would at one time become perfectly dry. Since then it had been found that Newton was correct. As the earth keeps cooling it will become porous, and great cavities will be formed in the interior which will take in the water. It is eiti* mated that this process is now in progress so far that the water diminishes at ths rate of the thickness of a sheet of writing paper a year. At this rate in 9,000,000 years the water will have sunk a mile, and in 15,000,000 years eTery trace of water will have dusapeared from the faoe of th» globe.
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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5024, 18 February 1885, Page 2
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156A GREAT DROUGHT. Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5024, 18 February 1885, Page 2
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