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find numberless extinct volcanoes all over the globe, a result 

 Which would never ensue, were they 'as We are told funnels or 

 chimneys for the molten fires within. A good illustration 

 of this exists in California, where Mount St. Helena, be^ 

 fore mentioned, being once an active volcano, has long been 

 silent, but the evidences of its violent action ate to be seen in 

 the wonderful Petrified Forest, while the remains of its once 

 extensive stores of gas producing matter, now burn away in 

 insignificant puffs in the Great Geysers, and the Hot Sulphur 

 Springs ; the whole phenomena suggesting the picture of the 

 charred and dying embers of an extensive conflagration. 



The lava and burnt earth found at the " crop " of the coal at 

 the Albion Mines in Nova Scotia, show the site, Where the gas 

 generated from the action of water in the mine, at one time 

 formed a volcano. 



To show that we are not altogether alone in our statements 

 regarding the cause of volcanoes, we may state that Prof. Mallet 

 of England also maintains, that there are no volcanoes without 

 the action of water. 



EARTHQUAKES^ 



Earthquakes are Caused similarly to volcanoes. The interio? 

 of the earth, as we have said, is saturated with water, and forms 

 a grand magnetic battery, continuously in action, dissolving and 

 reforming its mineral matter -which action produces tht 

 mineral gas we have so frequently referred to and throws it 

 ofl through the strata of rock, principally from the poles of the 

 earth, and mountain tops as poles. But where this gas is 

 confined, it accumulates, and finally generates a force sufi> 

 cient to produce an earthquake, and to rend portions of the earth 

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