If our eye could penetrate the earth and see its interior from pole to pole, from where we stand to the antipodes, we would glimpse with horror a mass terrifyingly riddled with fissures and caverns. – Thomas Burnet, Telluris Theoria Sacra, Amsterdam, Wolters, 1694, p. 38.
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