Wheeling compiler. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [i.e. W. Va.]) 1829-1831, 1830-06-30

uucn TcNuldllLf - Ni~t oAA~ ''t 6'-e Guy 10 w.
-, g.s, steering for the same destination
Vino may number the infinite variety OF
mollusca, borne along by tho general cur
-ppt of the north, diyUrglng ia summer to-
wards the south, showing M It's passage
tho subterraucan fields oi Florida, and ha-
vino on ITS surface for hundreds Of leagues
tho herb so well known to scamen as Inc
torpic weedl
Il IS there found IN such quantities, as
sometimes TO emborrass vessels IN their
ororress, and is so thick That / have seen
land birds ropose and walk on those 1oat-
inc fields voyaglug TO the seuih.
These seas filled with SO many living
specics. the most which arc unknown to
our naturaIsts. become suddcnig illumna-
ted with "a phosFhoresceat hight. You
would say that The ship foatcd on sea
studded with stars, Eac the milky way
and uayersed by artificial fires: In summer
these lights arc extended even to the nor
thern ocean. ln short this current formed
of the tepid waters of the tOrrId zones, GU
culaung Ia cold southern temperate zone'
arrives 10 temper the Tuggedness Of is
winter, and render that itcundty TO The
Magellan shores, which It's own inhosp.t-
T able summers have denied
/ Another branch of this current turns to
/ The east through the straits Of MldagaS-
lear, and opens ju this season TO the navI-
gators of Europe the eastern seas, and the
. route 90 the Oriental Indies.
With much Dropuety our author calls
the southern pole the wintry pole, aud that
of the north the pole Of sumner The
characteristics Of the first are impenetra-
bic mists, continual rams, and mighty tenn
pests, the summer pole Of the north Is dis
u0guished for ITS beautiful DAYS, for its
abundant aud luxuriant vegetation.
We have already remarked, that the
summer Of The southern hemisphere was
little else than q continuous winter, but
yielding 90 the extensive and genial lnfu
'enccs of the northern pole, IT'S winter be-
comes summer / remember a very curl
Gus observation of Forster, which eStab
fishes this theory-Fhis young ana learn
/ cd associate of Captain Cook, relates iu
/ the narrative OF hls voyage, that having
debarkeJ upon the Magellan lands about
( the end of January equivalent 20 the month
|of May 20 this hemisphere, his crew com
posed of two and thirty men, was obliged
90 pass the night on shore About mid
night there sprung up a southern gale ac-
componIed with showers, so piercing cold
,hat two men persisted in two hours, 10
spite Of the fires kjudled around, and the
succour the rest were able to afford them
How Is &c possible, exclaimed Forster,
,bat a climate, where the summers are
more rigorous than our winters, can pro-
duCe trees of the most luxurant growth!
We found quantities Cf them sixty and sc
venty {eot high, of which we nude masis
and yards How may we contemplate
this apparent anomaly 10 nature. But.
when he had read with attention the new
theory Of seas, he then conceived the prob
a5Illty'o the excessive cold on the Magl-
IAN lands being attributable to the winds
and ices which descend from the pole m
the southern summer: and that the CIR
rents Of the north pole, flowing through
the torrid zone, and pushing on their hat.
eC waters 20 the south, converted Hpr
rugged winters into genial summers
he vas so much struck with this ray Of
hight thrown upon this hitherto inexplJa
bic mystery that he sought the author in
his solitude and thanked him for the as.
covery. lie was a man of letters. as sem
sitivo as he was unfortunate, and has since
expired under the weight of many slr
rows, alike the victim Of war, Of torture,
and of c0anubial love.
But let as proceed to declare results
from thus same principle, that Is, from he
alternate action Of the sun upon the poes
of ihe world. u cannot be his attraction
and still less the moon 's,-which causes
ihs flow Of currents and the periodical
winds in the Indies, flowing six months
from east 20 west, and as many more from
west 90 east The sun and moon 20 con.
siantly from east 20 west, and can scarce
ly be the cause Of those atmospheric cur
rents, called Nonsoons, as Is believed by
soamen; for tbo directions of these winds
are annually reversed Besides, although
they do often excite tompestS, these acton
ly az the surface Of the sea, and produce
waves 10 various directions, during the.
shorter days.
They are TOO iuconstant and TOO feeble
20 propel, en- musse. these profound seas,
aud TO make them flow alternately 10 the
east and 10 the west. The author Is Elr
from agreeing that the Indian Mousooas
produce this general motion In the seas
throughout n space extending spirally a.
ROUND the entire gIohe.-on the contrary,
be believes that these very seas. descend