And it seems reasonable to conclude that the outflowing matter would retain its liquid condition long enough (the crust itself being intensely hot) to spread widely,--a circumstance which would account at once for the breadth of many of the rays, and for the restoration of level to such a degree that no shadows are thrown. It appears probable, also, that not only (which is manifest) were the craters formed later which are seen around and upon the radiations, but that the central crater itself acquired its actual form long after the epoch when the rays were formed.'] [Footnote 11: Where several ray centres are near together, a region directly between two ray centres would be at a level intermediate between that of the ray centres and that of a region centrally placed within a triangle or quadrangle of ray centres; but the latter region might be at a higher level than another very far removed from the part where the ray centres were near together. For instance, the space in the middle of the triangle having Copernicus, Aristarchus, and Kepler at its angles (or more exactly between Milichius and Bessarion) is lower than the surface around Hortensius (between Copernicus and Kepler), but not so low as the Mare Imbrium, far away from the region of ray centres of which Copernicus, Aristarchus, and Kepler are the principal.] [Footnote 12: It is important to notice that we may derive from these considerations an argument as to the condition of the fluid matter now existing beneath the solid crust of the earth.] _A NEW CRATER IN THE MOON._