Sixty million Years Hence.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1165, 25 July 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

Sixty million Years Hence.

Pbof. Riohabd A. Pbootob says the moon is the most interesting of all the heavenly bodies. It has been particularly serviceablein the proof it affords of the law of gravitation. It proves, too, what the world has been in remote ages of the paßt and what it will be in remote ages to oome. Its most-signifioant service to man has been as a measurement of time. The only perceptible effect whioh the earth has upon the moon's coarse is that of attraction, by whioh its route in space is slightly deviated. From the moon's present condition we may inform ourselves of the course of all planetary life. There is every reason to suppose that our present oondition was at one time hers ; that she possessed an atmosphere, water, animal and vegetable life. That has now passed away. Her surface is a sterile, rooky mass. The atmosphere has gone or nearly bo, and the seas are dried up. This same process is going on with our earth, and a similar result will eventually ensue, but by reason of the greater bulk, of our planet, effects produced Jn ten millions of years in the moon will require sixty millions with us. — New York Tribute.