Note B — INTRODUCTORY SKETCH, &c.
Robert Mallet translation
Yet how indistinctly formed were Young's ideas, and indistinct in the same direction as those of Humboldt, becomes evident by a single sentence: "When the agitation produced by an Earthquake extends further than there is any reason to suspect a subterraneous communication, it is probably propagated through the earth nearly in the same manner as a noise is conveyed through the air."—Lectures, Nat. Phil., Vol. I.