Heat of the Earth by Editor

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 1, 1857

Heat of the Earth

By Editor

A FEW more facts, corroborative of our remarks in last week's REVIEW on the internal heat of the earth, by which it appears that the earth as it rolls onward to its final destiny bears within itself the means of its own purification, have come under our observation, and in connection with those remarks, we give them as found in the following item from one of our exchanges:

HEAT OF THE EARTH.—By experiments made during the last year by Professor Piazzi Smyth, at Edinburgh with a series of earth thermometers, imbedded in the earth at varying depths, it was proved that there was a gradually increasing heat of one degree Fahrenheit, for every four feet of depth, so that at less than two and a half miles water would boil, and at less than one hundred miles deep all things must be in a state of complete fusion.