...will heel over to larboard. Many a good ship has gone to the bottom in this way. If the continents are lightened, they will rise; if the bed of the sea receives additional weight, it will sink. The bottom of the Pacific is sinking, in point of fact. Not that the Pacific is becoming deeper. This seems...

...No, certainly. She will heel over to larboard. Many a good ship has gone to the bottom in this way. If the continents be lightened, they will rise ; if the bed of the sea receive additional weight, it will sink. The bottom of the Pacific is sinking, in point of fact. Not...

...No, certainly. She will heel over to larboard. Many a good ship has gone to the bottom in this way. If the continents be lightened, they will rise ; if the bed of the sea receive additional weight, it will sink. The bottom of the Pacific is sinking, in point of fact. Not...

...sea, — thinning towards the land, and thickening over all the bed of the sea. What must happen ? If the continents be lightened, they will rise ; if the bed of the sea receive additional weight, it will sink. It is impossible but that this increase of pressure in some...

...sea, — thinning towards the land, and thickening over all the bed of the sea. What must happen ? If the continents be lightened, they will rise ; if the bed of the sea receive additional weight, it will sink. It is impossible but that this increase of pressure in some...

...elsewhere expressed it when alluding to the same subject and the same locality, if the continents are lightened, they will rise; if the bed of the sea receives additional weight, it will sink.f No one else, that I am aware of, has attributed the occurrence of oscillation of level in land...

...others by what would occur to a ship floating even on her keel. " If the weight on the starboard bu transferred to the port side, she will heel over to...sufficient or conclusive proof. In the Geological Record for 1877 (p. 173) a French geologist is stated to regard the increasing weight of deposits in...