If ye make one more step toward the mill door ye'll not ken of a certainty whaur ye'll land when ye're upheaved.
"All-Wool Morrison"
Holman Day
Attempts to determine the centre of gravity of the volume of the lands upheaved above the level p 21 of the sea.
"COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1"
Alexander von Humboldt
The study of the strata which are so differently formed and arranged before our eyes, and of all that has been so variously dislocated, conforted, and upheaved, by mutual compression and volcanic force, leads the reflective observer, by simple analogies, to draw a comparison between the present and an age that has long passed.
"COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1"
Alexander von Humboldt