The Hollow Earth

About this eBook

Author

Ives, F. T. (Franklin Titus), 1828-1910

Original Publication

United States: Broadway Publishing Company,1904.

Credits

Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

Language

English

LoC Class

QE: Science: Geology

Subject

Earth (Planet) -- Internal structure

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 68122

Release Date

May 19, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.THE HOLLOW EARTH
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.I. CRANKS.
6. 6.II. FIRE AND WATER.
7. 7.III. ICEBERGS.
8. 8.IV. GULF STREAM.
9. 9.V. DAILY MOTION.
10. 10.VI. EARTHQUAKES.
11. 11.VII. VOLCANOES. — WHAT ARE VOLCANOES FOR?
12. 12.VIII. RAINFALLS.
13. 13.IX. SPRINGS.
14. 14.X. GLACIERS. — WHAT PRODUCES A GLACIER?
15. 15.XI. CAVES.
16. 16.XII. ARTESIAN WELLS.
17. 17.XIII. OASES.
18. 18.XIV. THINGS THAT PUZZLE US.
19. 19.XV. METEORS.
20. 20.XVI. ATTRACTION OF GRAVITATION.
21. 21.XVII. SCIENTIFIC THEORIES.
22. 22.XVIII. SURFACE INFLUENCES OF WATER, AND CHANGE OF POLARITY.
23. 23.XIX. CONCLUSION.
24. 24.APPENDIX. — IMMENSE FIELDS OF ICE. — A STEAMER SURROUNDED AND COMPELLED TO WORK HER WAY OUT. — PASSED A GREAT ICEBERG. — THREE HUNDRED MILES OF ICE. — THE GREATEST OCEAN DEPTH. — THE SUN’S TEMPERATURE. — SAW TREMENDOUS ICEBERGS. — THEY ARE 300 FEET HIGH AND SEVEN AND EIGHT MILES LONG NEAR CAPE HORN. — KINGSTOWN COVERED WITH ASHES. — ERUPTION STARTED ON MONDAY. — SIXTY KILLED BY LIGHTNING. — SOME PERSONS DYING OF THIRST. — THE NEW JACKSONVILLE. — A FRESH CITY BUILT BEFORE THE RUINS OF THE OLD HAVE CEASED TO SMOULDER. — A PRAIRIE CAVERN. — AN INTERESTING HOLE IN THE GROUND WHERE CAVES WOULD NOT BE LOOKED FOR. — ARTESIAN WATERS IN TEXAS. — THE GREAT ASSAM EARTHQUAKE. — CURIOUS RESULT OF THE EARTHQUAKE. — A VILLAGE DESTROYED BY AN EARTHQUAKE. — FIRE BANKED FOR YEARS. — A WHOLE VALLEY LAID IN WASTE. — FIFTEEN CRATERS DESTROY WHAT WAS ONCE A DELIGHTFUL SPOT. — A HIVE OF VOLCANOES. — OVER THREE THOUSAND ACTIVE VOLCANOES IN LOWER CALIFORNIA. — A TUNNEL A LIME KILN. — THE SANTA FE MAY HAVE TO ABANDON ITS JOHNSON CANYON ROUTE. — VOLCANIC OUTBURST PROBABLE. — DESOLATED BY ERUPTIONS. — FIFTEEN NEW CRATERS DESTROY MANY HOMES AND RUIN A WIDE AREA IN CHILI. — GLACIER ICE. — THE LONGEST GLACIER IN THE TEMPERATE ZONE ASCENDED BY MR. CONWAY. — ANOTHER GULF STREAM FROM SAME SOURCE. — THE LAKE ON THE MOUNTAIN. — MR. DRUMMOND THINKS HE HAS FOUND WHERE ITS WATERS COME FROM. — A BOILING LAKE. — AN UNCANNY LAKE. — CURIOUS LAKE IN THE WEST INDIES. — LOFTY LAKES OF THE WORLD. — THE WATER STILL RISES. — QUEER PRANKS OF A LAKE AS AN EFFECT OF AN EARTHQUAKE SHOCK. — THE DEEPEST LAKE KNOWN. — A MAMMOTH SPRING. — THE WORLD’S LARGEST SPRING. — FRESH WATER FROM A SALT BAY. — A STRANGE POND. — WONDERS BENEATH THE SURFACE. — FISH IN AN OLD WELL. — ST. WINIFRED’S WELL. — MONTEZUMA’S WELL. — A REMARKABLE ISLAND. — WHERE THE VALLEY WAS A HILL IS. — REMARKABLE GEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY. — TUNNELLING FOR WATER. — FOLKS OUT IN IDAHO WHO RUN THEIR WELLS INTO A SIDE HILL. — DOMINICA’S BOILING LAKE. — A NATURAL CURIOSITY THAT WAS NOT DISCOVERED TILL 1875. — LAKE CICOTT’S SEVEN-YEAR RISE. — INDIANA PHENOMENON REAPPEARS ON SCHEDULE TIME.
25. 25.Untitled

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