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MAJOR COWIE'S letter in NATURE of May 8 gives the impression that I had the facts of the observations on the deflection of the plumb-line in India before me, and that I made my assumptions as to relative densities, and the mode of compensation by extension of depressed crust beneath the plains, “suitably adjusted,” so as if possible to bring out the desired results. This was not the case. I made the assumptions about relative densities which seemed to be a priori probable; and it will be seen from the diagram at p. 184 of my “Physics of the Earth's Crust” that fifteen years before I wrote the paper in the Phil Mag. I had suggested that compressed mountains would be partly supported by an extension of the depressed crust beyond them.
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FISHER, O. The Mountains and their Roots. Nature 91, 270 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091270a0
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