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IN the last number of NATURE (Jan. 18), Mr. J. J. Murphy asks, “Can any mathematical reason be a signed why the contraction of the earth should be least in the direction of the polar direction? This would account for the rising of the land at the poles.”
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HAMILTON, G. Circumpolar Lands. Nature 5, 242 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005242c0
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