In each case all strains are carefully computed.
Thus regarded, it becomes reasonable to suppose that North and South America have in a broad way been developed under a succession of somewhat similar strains in the earth's crust, and that they are, in so far, favourable witnesses to the theory that there is something individual in the plan of continental growth.
These strains seem to be now extinct, having been replaced by foxhounds, a large variety of which is employed in stag-hunting.
Strains exceeding the "limit of elasticity" result in permanent deformation or (if sufficiently great) in rupture.
Such alterations in temperature produce strains which frequently result in the chipping off of small fragments of the material composing the stone.