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THE elevation and depression of different parts of the surface of the earth above or below a mean ocean level has frequently formed the subject of communications to NATURE, but in no instance, as far as I am aware, have any of these changes been referred to the remarkable shape of the equatorial circumference of the earth, and to the changes which it is not improbable are constantly but slowly taking place in the position of the major and minor axes of the equatorial circumference. On p. 98 of the second edition of “The Heavens,” by Amedée Guillemin, edited by J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., the following note is introduced in brackets by the editor:—
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HIND, H. The Figure of the Earth in Relation to Geological Inquiry . Nature 10, 165–167 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/010165c0
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