The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-03-21 00:00:00

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Among other .:17tch ; it themselves as
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objects
research. '
terestiog to hismaniv, than kolioriont to the act-
runt...mod of ecielici and thlVirtebal,le extethhots of
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commerce.
First—The influence the removal or so
large • hotly of tee may . trove nit oar climate—
Socomite. the oppottunity ilitattardd of inquiring
into the rite of the liiigslajt Cutosiy too the eastern
coast or Ohl Greenlanch—Wrdly, the facility it
Offers of oorreetisig the very &hying/ geography of
the arctic 'extolls in our western hrrthiaphere ; of
attemptitig the eircumnavirition of (;reenlato4l, •
dittet papeage over the Pole, nod the more cir-
cuitous one along the northern coast of America,
into the P.teitic.

1. It would be a wilite awards to cutter into any
'discussiou on the di ;;; i tttt tionof temperature, which
must siecetsitrily be occasioned by the proximity of
vast mountains and islands of ice. The authentic
unnab of lceland thscribe that island as having
once' been covered with impervious woods ; and
numerous places still bear the name of Ares/,
which prodoce only a few miserable shouted lurches
of five or six feet high, mad in which all attempts
to raise a tree of arty kind Stave for ages proved
unavailing. The most intelligent travellers*. r'llot
iu our lisle, have visited this iistand, bear testimony
to the fact of large logs of wood bring dug out of
bogs, awl found between the mallets! in the val.
Icy.. It is al.o said that vest culinary vegetables
were enter produced out it ; but the cabbage% seen
there by Mr. Hooker, in d e mouth of A ogno,
were so dimi 0000 sive that a half-ctown piece would
have covered the whole plant. Nothing but a de-
terioration of climate could have wrought there
t hanges ; and this can toady be explained by the.
vast increase of floating ire. " which," sari
Hooker, " not mily fills all the bays,, but voters
the sea to that extent from the whore, that the eye
cannot trace its boundary from the summit of the
highest mountains." Sometimes it connects the
ialand in one cositinwed mase•wiilt Greenland, when.
the white bears come over in witch alarming num.
tiers, Ova the inhabitants assemble and wage a nos
tiourl war ugainst thew. These masses of ice drive
uhout with such rapidity, mid rush against one
nstother with so much violence, that the floating
wood brought along shit them is said sonsetiunes
to take fire by the friction. During this conflict,
the weather is unsettled and stormy ; but when
once the ice heroines fixed to 'the loud. the air
thickens, and dense fogs, accompanied by a moist
and pweirating cold, destroy all vegetation, mud
the euttle
• Similar effect", but to a less extent, are said to
have been experienead in Switzerbuni. ..140 little is

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PIII:I6MEN.I.
T;.e country Papers laser stated, that ati 1-'l-"I•tY
the hilt ult. brit 'vests two mu t tbrarsa'clock its Han
afternoon, phe 111111 l eons, !upper:et! to have been pro.
(lured by Ull P8111141111%C, were experience!' at,
Cimino:shy and in other pasts.of lincolsoiltsre, and
in IlulJerness. Near Kirton-in.Liasthey, Lincoln-
shire, it gentletnass who heard the noise awl felt
tise concussion. nu !looking up saw a bill, appa-
rently about the size of-a caissons-ball, witlra:kind
of streamer behind it, rushisigalong in the a ills
great scliwily. His servant, who. wo also.
it.
Front the following pattanigt in Blackwood's
Ediabargis Jlagu:loc, tralipepeit probable that dn.
pliettomemiall I Ames. sr to not the cointequeuce of
ass earthquake, but of the fall lrota the atillOsPhert•
of one of dune stoner., sinsihr to that which fell sit
'Wnld Cottage, several yews ago, Aultof whim de-
scent autliesitte testimonies have act:Until lasted of
late year's:—
" We have received intelligence from Profemor E. D.
Clarke, sit Ciiiss,irolgr, of a large asid 11{I 111111 l nil arefete,.
seen by the reoresaire hiswaelf, and two other perfOUP, 11/
they were walking in the estsitous of the Univ. rsitt, at trio
of the clock, pm. sits Friday, February R. It destsidell err-.
tically from the smith tonarala the bin itmi. in the northern
part of the hemisphire. The 'Moil trinarkable eireunotanre
attending this iihesionsmion is, that it way sivildes in lun:nl
day-light; betas oppuots& to the •siorea oils, *lrish carat
'bat time shining silk great splendor's JAI is eloroltem.sky.
Hush she farm of Ibr tarlear, stud its rapid vertical rear se,
seemed So indicate a fall sit matter Puna the Mossospliele ;
and the Professor ascribes the intense light by a MA it • is
accompanied, to heat evolved dosing she transitiois of A 1
body from the aeri-forsis to the solid state. The save meteor •1
was seess at listalllsani, in Norfolk, precisely at tbs. same
lime. An Armand of it has, arii,eare.i. its The Noncieh
Ifereoro, for Sisinrilay, Fel:roam. 14,• srlalre
as i • well-defined uib of Whit.: light, gas tug otrtl.une bad:.
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