Commenting on the report a leading scientist considers that the fissure of the earth's crust running through the Aleutian Islands, on which so many active volcanoes stand, the extension of which through the Alaskan Peninsula has been announced by Dr. Griggs, is perhaps the most peculiar and alarming phenomenon in the whole surface of our planet. In the absence of any other cause for the opening of the fissure. it is most reasonable to suppose that it is the result of the constantly increasing weight of the polar ice cap, due to our lengthening winters.
Several years azo Abbé Moreaux, director of the Bourges Observatory, France, after a study of the sun's face, forecasted a series, though not perhaps quite unbroken, of 26 hard winters. His forecast to date has been amply verified. Ice and snow have so piled up in the Polar Cirelo that our several expeditions have been as many years trying to get out, and one has not been heard from for over a year. It is obvious, if my assumption is correct, that the Alaskan fissure will continue to increase in direct ratio with the increase of ice weight and that other volcanic explosions will follow in that section as internal gas forms.
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