[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inq…

Oliver Goldsmith
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[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by means of volcanoes, those burning mountains that seem to discharge their materials from the lowest abysses of the earth. ✨ Oliver Goldsmith (1825). A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature, p.26
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