The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-03-31 00:00:00

WONDERB IN THE DEEP.
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A most interesting and retractive lectors. bearing
the above title, was delivered on Tuesday evening,
at the Townhall, in oonortic• with the Blaadford
Working Man's Club, by the Rev. J. 8. Raddaoh,
formerly ovate of Blandhrd. The chair was taken
by the Rev. W. Harr, =ported by the .dayor, and
the hall was tWed by a highly respectable cowpony.
The rev. chairman, in introducing the lecturer,
said it hadlgiven him much pleasure toirespood to the
request of the ammstary of the Working Man's Club,
and as chairmen for his dear friend on that occasion.
He had an used to introduce him—he was will-known
to them all ; aad he wr sure they would Brea to
his lecture with pleasure, not only on recent of the
Interesting nature of the subject. but out of edam
and repot to him who formerly laboured among
them Without further remark he would call upon
Mr. Buddha to give his lecture.
The my. gentleman, in introducing his subject,
related the anecdote given by Capt. ICarryatt of the
sailor boy, who on retrains from his first voyage,
like most travellers, meet pa • yam. After telling
his grandmother that the reps they bad great dial--
salty in raisin re arbor in the Red fra, was be-
muse they crest up sore of Pharoah's °harlot,
and that one of the rivers dewed over with ram -he
began to describe the shoals of flying fish be mw,
when the old lady, who had taken in as truth his
former statement, stopped him sad said, " No, no,
John, —you might have taken up a part of Thresh's
, chariot, for that we read of in the bible, and I do
not try bet that you have seen rivers flowing with
rum bet as to the flying Bah Id. sot believes word
of it." Thus showiag, rid the lecturer, that " truth
is arrow than fiches." Now, said the speaker, I
am not going to do as the boy did; but in what I
have to my to you to-night there will be some hr.
related as marvellous. The first wonder in the deep
to which I will cell your attention is • mighty river
in the Wart of the sea—MOM rapid than the Mirth
dppi, the warm of which never overflow, are cool
at the bottom, and warm at the surface, known as
the great Galtetream. This weeder of the deep
sociroles aarberdisiothred by Colombia, who when
on his voyage from the Canary Wands, observed
before him what beat first supplier to be land; but
on coming near to it he discovered it was a large and
compact maws of sew weed—en ocean mesdow—iilloll
found out to be 700 mills loss, and as large as the
Ids of Francs, and now known as the Sea of
&gores. It was at first supposed that this Gulf-
stream was oared by the wares of the klissimippi
and the Amason rushing int* the Gesso, but Captain
Livingstone has proved that one part of thall-
stream is nilt and the other fresh water; and after
maoh research it is believed that wee cause of this ,
wonder of the deep is the trade winds, which exert •
great Wirers oe the deep. The lesthrer gave several
terrible reasons to asocont for this phenomena ; and
after dwelling on this pert of the 'object proosedad
te point or the great use the Gultetreem and the
%goer walk° the world. The fosse, by the
prolific toreperatere of its waters eared by the
trade winds to par over ie • warmly direction, and
to these winds tie inhabitants of the British Isles
owe that freedom from inters cold which chaise op
in sternal ico and snow the Polar regime. Were
tires thhey'whida to ram instead of our shores
berg the limy sop of commerce sad industry, we
should sink down in the sothe of satire, and if we
sainted at al should be bet little known. Tbe Gulf-
stream is beneficial both to the north and to the
south, cooling the latter and warning the former,
and acts mash in thu lOW way r allithwater ap-
pears is used for giving an equal &MIA of heat
through an sperrient. The crildron, sot. speak,
of the Gulf-stream, lath. Carribber lisa, where its
waters are heated, and from wipes, poring by the
shores of Great Britain and other pe of the world,
returns to be cooled in the northern laird's, and ,
there back to the Carribbese Sea. The ass Air-
ier of the gulf stream is very great, Orr& fertility
aad beauty to those regior wissch without it would
be r regions of eternal row, and cooling by its in-
doors those hot plains where, but for it. every
species of vegetation would be burnt up. The cur-
rents of the Pan are oared by the inhere of this
rip body of warm water rushing to the Poles. We
have now to resider of what the &mom, or ocean
meadow is composed. It was thought for a long
aims to be composed of imams Mesa weed, but upon
examination it has be.. found to be composed of
these small marine animals which are the
chid food of the whale—bet r the whale
always avoids Übe 0111111ifeeill it may be *eked bow
is it that this lap quantity of food is prepared in
oue.part of the eossa he the supply of areatune .
another? And here we have an tastahos of '
We • of thee BP& who girth food to all
belt rin thaw parts whore +Wes ahead there is no
7=rfound we white then nelaUssimals mist,
o u
tbs asee neer the gulf stream for vegetation
is Pried by the waters of the llipth to the
gulf; red hire, acceeding to the doom giving at the
bekaning of the tratiree—" Bring forth and multi-
ply —east serried, afthiseminathe ereatures are plo-
wed, and the Outhatiresth he thew away to the
weer of Newhthilhad and elsewhere where they
become tie food of the worker of the deep. Thee
we re the great use the Sagaina and the Galt stream
ass, net only to era bet to the Inner order of mar '
Wow Aker sonemmting en the beneficence and
wisdom of the Alawitty as thews is this wine inn. I
tucks for his Oria4.olll, the leeturvr preosnled to
wonder of the deep, the appeases* of the
ass in the evening whin the ena hoe est, essmoriag
his remarts by some very bearifil per. from
cesthe. Coleridge, and other anthers.
the beech the ess on a summer% night spire
saseving iamb flames of light, whit* speli and
r ell greed nig i• onsiml by tile papp
om at Ks de.th A
I:2lfriatt ven
elli lirVirsernialliel 4 ft

dark of • species of shark which pre forth a glitter-
"ii light apparently from bemoth the akin of the
animal—mast likely the vita power within it But
, the chief came of this phenomena is a gelatinous
animal, berths antler nasals nor hoses, and called
gelatine ,eaario„ Vast numbers of this are found
in the ma emitting a strong phosphoric light The
use of this light to the fish is most likely to attract
and draw its prey within its reach, the mine as the
fisherman who uses torches for that purpose; sad the
shark, bedding in his hand, as it were, the deluding
torch, sucomsfolly entraps the toad he seeks; &D
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may we not see n this another instance of the
wisdom and goodness of God, who thus adapta menu
to an end, and Disked' all his works to praise Him?
The next point considered was the depths of the sea.
If the land has its beautiful flowers, and verdant
plains overspread with what delighte and makes the
heart glad ; so also bath the deep, exceeding in rich-
ness and loveliness She most beautiful of tropical
climes The chief of them are the polepa, to which
class the sea annemmie belongs. These are generally
fixed to the ground, and are breed to rest mutest
with what the waters bring; they are however,
provided with tactical's, by which they seise as
with • hundred holds all that comes within their
reach. The rev. gentleman then passed on to notice
the coral reefs of the torrid zones. The construction
of which is accomplished by a minute and tender
animal, a very minute species of the era 'lineman*
minima and hundreds of minions of which are
actively engagod in forming the beautiful reefs of
coral over which the breaken of the ocean ban
and rendered fit for vegetatiou and the
t habitation of wan. May we not paler (said the
speaker) a very useful lemon from this subject, of
the value of comparatively small things and little
efforts, and to be encouraged to persevere iii every
good work? We next consider the depths of the
sea. At one time it was supposed that these were
equal to the highest mountains, but this theory has
not been supported by observation. Many attempts
have been made to sound the depths of the sea, and
after repeated trials a small thread with • cannon
ball affixed at the end was used. 30,000, 40,000
and 50,000 feet of line was reported as being drawn
out, when it was found that the under current, after
the ball was stationary, drew the line farther away.
To obviate this an ingenious invention, (a model of
which the lecturer used for illustrating his subject,)
wse used. At the end of the line and through the
canto° ball a tube was fixed, which projected be-
yond the ball, and was covered with a substance
which would adhere to whatever it cone in contain
with. The result of the trial of this apparatus was
not at present known, but he (the lecturer) believed
it would be successful. It might be asked of what
use is this deep sea sounding? One result was that
by it had been found near the °oast of Newfound.
land, • vast plain existed at the bottom of the sea,
and he yet believed this would be used for the pur-
pose of an Atlantic telegraph. lnagaiu noticing the
subject of coral formatious, the re., gentleman said
that the Mississippi and the Ammon discharged
into the ocean vast quantities of lime and other sub-
stantial which were used by the minute creatures of
the deep to form them wonders—the Coral Islands.
LK conclusion be trusted that what he bad said would
imbue, these present, while they neglected not the
book of Revelation—the Bible, to pay more atten-
tion to the other book God had given us—the book
of nature, whose leaves were ever open. and from
whim we could learn—