A Great Drought.
Riciurd A. Proctok nays that the as?o of the earth is placed by some at 500,000,000 year-*, and still others of later time, among them the Duke of Argyll, place it at 10,000 000 years. None place it lower than 10,000,000, knowing what processes have been gone through. The earth must have become old. Newton surmised although he could give no reason for it, that the earth would at one time become perfectly dry. Since then ie has been found that Newton was correct. As the earth keeps cooling it will become porom, and great oavlties will be formed in the interior which will take in the water. It is estimated that this process is now in progress so far that the water diminishes at the 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 year* every traoe of water will have disappeared from the faoe of the globe.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1985, 28 March 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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171A Great Drought. Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1985, 28 March 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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