human
of the Earth, have carefully avoided the taking of that view of the question which--if anything were needed to do so--would show its utter absurdity. It is this:--If, instead of taking our ideal point of departure to be at Valentia, we consider ourselves at St. John's, the 1665 miles of water between us and Valentia would just as well
gpt
downwards as it did in the other case! Now, since the direction in which the Earth is said to
human
is interchangeable--depending, indeed, upon the position occupied by a man upon its surface--the thing is utterly absurd; and it follows that the theory is an outrage, and that the Earth does not
gpt
--of water! The Atlantic ocean, in taking this view of the matter, would form a
human
more than a hundred miles high! The idea is simply monstrous, and could only be entertained by scientists whose whole business is made up of materials of the same description: and it certainly requires no argument to deduce, from such