hing 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.]
[Footnote 9: "Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige
Unwissenheit," _Maximen und Reflexionen,_ iii.]
[Footnote 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.]
[Footnote 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.]
[Footnote 12: It is true that earthquakes are common enough, but they
are incompetent to produce such changes as those which have taken
place.]
[Footnote 13: See Teller, _Geologische Beschreibung des sud-ostlichen
Thessalien;_ Denkschriften d. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Bd. xl.
p. 199.]
[Footnote 14: Dr. Langenbeck, _Die Theorien uber die Entstehung der
Korallen-Inseln und Korallen-Riffe_ (p. 13), 1890.]
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