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Curious Speculations

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
January
Year
1865
Copyright
Public Domain
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nous artiülo upon the " Causes of Hurïicanes and Meteen," tho Scienlifie American tlius condueles : " If the eartb should be stupped in its orbit, t would begin to fall straight towards the sim. Aa it approachos more nearly to that greut sonree of heat, it would söon reach a point where tho temperature is as high as two hundred and twelve degroen, :md the all the waters of the ocean would be evaporated. As it ilrew still nenrer, the rocks would be melted, and afterwards they also bo evaporated. Before it reached" the suri, the solid earth would be cor.verted into a vast volume of red-hot gas, which, when it feil into the fiery atmosphere of the sun ; would merely produce blasts of wind from the point where it struck outward in all directions."

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Old News
Michigan Argus