[Illustration: F. T. Ives.] THE HOLLOW EARTH BY F. T. IVES _Author of “Yankee Jumbles.”_ [Illustration] BROADWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY AT 835 BROADWAY NEW YORK Copyrighted, in 1904. BY F. T. IVES, _All Rights Reserved_. CONTENTS. PAGE I. Cranks 1 II. Fire and Water 5 III. Icebergs 19 IV. Gulf Stream 28 V. Daily Motion 36 VI. Earthquakes 38 VII. Volcanoes 40 VIII. Rainfalls 44 IX. Springs 55 X. Glaciers 61 XI. Caves 67 XII. Artesian Wells 68 XIII. Oases 71 XIV. Things That Puzzle Us 73 XV. Meteors 80 XVI. Attraction of Gravitation 81 XVII. Scientific Theories 86 XVIII. Surface Influences of Water, and Change of Polarity 88 XIX. Conclusion 95 APPENDIX 103 THE HOLLOW EARTH. I. CRANKS. Cranks are appliances to turn things round. A Crank that revolves only half way will not always accomplish much of a change, and in many cases would only aggravate the situation. Were it not for Cranks nearly all mechanical appliances would be motionless. Men’s thoughts and opinions would all be the same, without some such device to get them out of the old notions, grooves and ruts in which they long have indulged and plodded. The world has known Cranks ever since our first parents adopted the wearing of fig leaves, and Noah took up ship building on the weather bureau suggesting cloudy weather and showers in Eastern Turkey. Moses was a Crank when he forbid the eating of pork, salt water eels, turkey buzzards, owls and all other unclean birds, fish or animals of any kind, but there is no doubt that these commands were none of his mistakes.