Note 21 — Chapter I · ON THE ELEVATION OF THE EASTERN COAST OF SOUTH AMERICA.
Reading edition
Journal of Royal Geograph. Soc., vol. v, p. 25. It appears from Mr. Scott Russell’s investigations (see Mr. Murchison’s “Anniver. Address Geolog. Soc.,” 1843, p. 40), that in waves of translation the motion of the particles of water is nearly as great at the bottom as at the top.