[743] Herschel's Astronomy, chap. iii.

[744] See Hennessy, On Changes in Earth's Figure, &c. Journ. Geol. Soc. Dublin, 1849; and Proc. Roy. Irish Acad. vol. iv. p. 337.

[745] Young's Lectures, and Mrs. Somerville's Connection of the Physical Sciences, p. 90.

[746] Phil. Trans. 1839, and Researches in Physical Geology, 1st, 2d, and 3d series, London, 1839-1842; also on Phenomena and Theory of Volcanoes, Report Brit. Assoc. 1847.

[747] Ed. Journ. of Sci. April, 1832.

[748] Cordier, Mém. de l'Instit. tom. vii.

[749] Pog. Ann. tom. xv. p. 159.

[750] See M. Cordier's Memoir on the Temperature of the Interior of the Earth, read to the Academy of Sciences, 4th June, 1827.—Edin. New Phil. Journal, No. viii. p. 273.

[751] Cordier, Mém. de l'Instit. tom. vii.

[752] Phil. Mag. and Ann. Feb. 1830.