But it is one thing to
build a barge 44ft. long by 11ft. wide and 4ft. deep in the way
described; and another to get a vessel of ten times the
dimensions, so constructed, to hold together.
(9) "Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit,"
Maximen und Reflexionen, iii.
(10) The well-known difficulties connected with this case have
recently been carefully discussed by Mr. Bell in the
Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasgow.
(11) An instructive parallel is exhibited by the "Great Basin"
of North America. See the remarkable memoir on
Lake
Bonneville by Mr. G. K. Gilbert, of the United States
Geological Survey, just published.
(12) It is true that earthquakes are common enough, but they
are incompetent to produce such changes as those which have
taken place.
(13) See Teller,
Geologische Beschreibung des sud-ostlichen
Thessalien; Denkschriften d. Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Wien, Bd. xl. p. 199.
(14) Dr. Langenbeck,
Die Theorien uber die Entstehung der
Korallen-Inseln und Korallen-Riffe (p. 13), 1890.
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