Identifier: watersabovefirma00vail (find matches)
Title: The waters above the firmament, or The earth's annular system
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Vail, Isaac Newton, 1840-1912
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Ferris and Leach
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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smoke. Eing 2 represents the heaviest forms of car-bon, as graphite, etc., which, according to law, gatheredmore largely among the innermost vapors than else-where. Ring 3, the silurian vapors heavily chargedwith calcareous and silicious matter, and from whichthe silurian beds were almost wholly derived during avast lapse of time. No. 4, vapors of the devonian, car-boniferous and permean seas, heavily charged with car-bon, hydro-carbons, etc. No. 5, tertiary and cretaceousvapors, containing the lighter forms of calcareous andcarbonaceous matter. No. 6, the vapors of the quarter-nary, containing the lightest form of carbon, nowmixed with the glacial drift of the world and impris-oned in polar ice. INo. 7 represents the aqueous vaporsof the Edenic period, and the )Noachian deluge. Imagine the innermost section of ring 1 to declinefrom the system into the atmosphere and graduallyspread over the terrestrial heavens, in its effort to reachthe poles, remembering that all such movements eon-
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Fig. 3. EARTH AND ITS ANNULAR SYSTEM. Fig. 3 represents a full-face view of the earth and its annular system. Here o isthe earth, 6 the earths atmosphere, c the heavy carbons and their accompanyingmineral sublimations, d the lighter carbons and hydro-carbons, e glacial snows andtheir accompaniments, / outer vapors, principally aqueous and likely in a frozenstate. From this outermost ring came the polar snows that chilled the Eden earth,and afterwards caused the deluges of Noah and Deucalion, and still later causedthose sporadic incursions of canopy scenes so vividly shining to-day from all ancientBcriptures, sacred and profane. In these outermost rings a vast quantity of goldvapors, sent as fire mist to the skies, condensed and forming into nuggets, flakes,flour-gold, and the like, fell in polar lands with the snows as they fell and must to-daybe found in and on the very glaciers that lock down that once semi-tropic region inthe grasp of eternal winter.* The inter-annular spaces of th

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