Chapter

1 VI |     matter would acquire an elastic force which the crust of
2 XIV|    of the eruption. For the elastic fluids, being no longer
3 XV |     what vast quantities of elastic gases, what masses of molten
4 XV |    time would come when the elastic and explosive forces of
5 XX | profuse vegetation. The yet elastic and yielding crust of the
6 XXX|  earth consisted only of an elastic crust or bark, alternately