Through the channels that eternally pour from never ending supplies,
and in which storehouse are mingled the seeds from every valley, plain
and mountain top of our Earth; from this source they can be scattered
and mixed in every inch of the soil which composes our Earth from
center to surface, and when brought into contact with our atmosphere
start into new and varied existences.
The question may be reasonably asked if many of the reptilian specimens
attributed to remote antiquity as belonging to our Earth’s surface,
may not be specimens from an interior world, and even now have
representatives of their existence there?
Certain plants and growths require specific treatment and conditions.
Wherever pond lilies, peppermint, cattails, flag-root, cresses, and
moss in wells are found is unfailing proof of living fountains of water.
The ocean furnishes every facility of transportation through the
co-operative system without and within. The millions of seed that
mature in different climes on the surface are dropped and carried by
floods and currents into the main ocean. Some sink and lie buried
for ages, retaining their germs of life, for the outer ocean has its
regular currents and motions to such an extent, it would not make a
general distribution of seed in countless years.
Through this avenue passing under the ice belt, every variety is more
or less drawn into this general receptacle which, in turn carries them
inward and outward, and in course of time filters them in their course
into every inch of the earth through which the water passes; which is
in this way the medium of transportation.
By this means every spoonful of earth is in time prepared to give
growth of new life to any plant or tree that has ever existed when
exposed to the influence of air and heat or even cold, to revive its
species.
In passing to the surface, like the spawn of fish, they may pass
through localities of such excessive heat as to destroy their life
germs, as is undoubtedly the case with the spawn that should travel
through waters like geysers of Iceland or the Yellowstone Park or
waters similar to these, whose streams that flow away always show a
dearth of fish.
With the Earth formed like this, the writer claims it to be on the
principle of a globe for a gas jet, open on both sides and presenting
as it turns inward a funnel shaped entrance, which is without doubt
over 1,500 miles across; this passage would be just as vast to the eye
as the size of, or distance to, the fixed stars, the eye losing all
conception of measure, and a thousand miles is just as much beyond our
scope of vision as a million.
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