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Sodium, possesses a slight addition to the Phosphorus 

 constituent, and a relative increase of Hydrogen. The 

 alkali property is always a Hydrogen vibration. Salt 

 sensation proceeds from an excess of Phosphorus. All 



bitter sensations proceed from intense vibrations of 

 Hydrogen. Many cathartics (bitter) act through the 

 agency of the same element. Cryolite, or a form of 

 composite matter that abounds in sodium or blue 

 vibrations, is one of the results of the excessive 

 Hydrogen of the North Pole. It is found in Green- 

 land only, and is used for preparing the soda of 

 commerce. Rock salt, when translucent or trans- 

 parent, betrays embedded Phosphorus, or the agent of 

 light. 



:!<'). The diameter of the earth is estimated to 

 be nearly eight thousand miles. The rise of the 

 mercury of the thermometer one degree at every 

 sixty feet of descent fixes the estimate. The crust 

 of the earth has cohered principally through the 

 agency of Hydrogen and Nitrogen. The correlation 

 of the four gases, together with the compression exerted 

 by the Carbon-Nitrogen current encircling the Phos- 

 phorus globe, has created the igneous rocks, and other 

 stratified portions of the crust. It has always excited 

 surprise among Geologists that evidences of water 

 (Hydrogen and Phosphorus) should be discovered in 

 igneous rocks. All four gases ma} T be traced at first 

 glance in granite. 



The Hydrogen of the atmosphere, however, being 

 partially cut off from the internal sphere of Phos- 

 phorus, through the partial inertia of the inorganic 

 Crust, it becomes evident that the heat of the earth, 

 which is another term only for the excess of internal 

 Phosphorus, will never cut i rely subside, or be entirely 

 overcome by its relative gas, Hydrogen. Occasional 

 inhalations of Hydrogen, however, do occur through 

 tic craters of volcanoes. And when this does take 

 place, Sulphur, or a form of matter composed mainly 



