I therefore imagined that the internal parts might be a fluid more dense, and of greater specific gravity than any of the solids we are acquainted with ; which therefore might swim in or upon that fluid. Thus the surface of the globe would be a shell,... The Modern Philosopher, Or Terrible Tractoration: In Four Cantos, Most ... - Page 92 by Thomas Green Fessenden - 1806 - 271 pages Full view -
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