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Chapter XXV. “We Were the First“

           

           TheTrade-windsbringaconstantsuccessionofcloudsormistsinwhichimmensequantitiesofelectricitynotcompletelyexhaustedbystorms,arestored.Hencethereexistsaformidableaccumulationofelectricfluidatthepoles,anditflowstowardsthelandinapermanentstream.

           Fromthiscausecomethenorthernandsouthernauroras,whoseluminoussplendoursshineabovethehorizon,especiallyduringthelongpolarnight,andarevisibleeveninthetemperatezoneswhentheyattaintheirmaximumofculmination.

           Thesecontinuouscurrentsatthepoles,whichbewilderourcompasses,mustpossessanextraordinaryinfluence.Anditwouldsufficethatablockofironshouldbesubjectedtotheiractionforittobechangedintoamagnetofpowerproportionedtotheintensityofthecurrent,tothenumberofturnsoftheelectrichelix,andtothesquarerootofthediameteroftheblockofmagnetizediron.Thus,then,thebulkofthesphinxwhichupreareditsmysticformuponthisouteredgeofthesouthernlandsmightbecalculatedbythousandsofcubicyards.

           Now,inorderthatthecurrentshouldcirculatearounditandmakeamagnetofitbyinduction,whatwasrequired?Nothingbutametalliclode,whoseinnumerablewindingsthroughthebowelsofthesoilshouldbeconnectedsubterraneouslyatthebaseoftheblock.

           Itseemedtomealsothattheplaceofthisblockoughttobeinthemagneticaxis,asasortofgiganticcalamite,fromwhencetheimponderablefluidwhosecurrentsmadeaninexhaustibleaccumulatorsetupattheconfinesoftheworldshouldissue.

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