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

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the directions Of the currents.
No. 10.
Ihave forgotten TO adduce a new proc
Iof Inc existence Of these alternate currents
winch IS the more striking as 1t S more
pa.pable. Taks "a terrestrial globa, anC
consider the basin Of the Atlantic ocean
from the north to the south pole. You
will perceive IFS channel traced out like
the bed Of the river, with its salient an re.
treating angles, opposed to one anoher,
from Hudson's aud Dlliiu's bays. ITS pri'
lmuye sources, to the capes Horn and
Good Hope, where It disembogues.
All the islands included within lhls
space are. pointed al their exuemItIes, Ike
/ those which are submitted TO the actiu oil
the currents OF rivers aud lIe IN direction
parallel 10 their course.-ThOse of RI ers
are frequently pointed at their superior
|exremlues oaly, but those Of the SCARE
almost invariably sharpened at both be-
cause of the attrItIon Ola double river, av-
ling ITS sources at the opposite poles the
earth.
We may perceive, upon this globe the
Influence Of the currents from the oulh
pole, which have pointed the contleuts
( themselves, in the southern seas, Intcpro-
iocuug headlands, looking, mostly, toward
1.-The south Not only has the great oean
of waters formed the earth WITHIN lis bo-
som, cut the highest mountains INTO epa-
rate masses aud followed outthe deepest
valleys. br it has given forms TO ishnds
and 10 continents.
The aerial ocean, eDgenderod and sus-
thned by IT'S immense corporations, has,
10y the falling OF ITS rains, rounded off the
hills, and eXcavated the beds of river
which hasten again to mingIe their water
with those OF their pareEt--the ocean.
WesXplaln by this theory all those phe'
nomcna beyond the reach Of the present
Astronomical systems. For example.
Why arc there two tides daily IN the
Atlantic oceaul Because two drains ex
lst for the nouheru polar waters, the an.
Gent and the modern conunents;-lud
two others for che waters of the southern
pole, Cape Horn aud the Cape Of Good
Hope
Whence arises the retardatiOn Of most
Of these udesl' From the daily removal OF
the polar ices when they flow.
Wherefore Is there only one tide, of IL
hours duration IN tho p, IN the southern
hemisphere Because It's dome Of ice
does not pour out lis melting waters tbro'
narrow sTalgats, but 10 regular grada.
tlous like the course o. the SUI, ~ such a
way that every port or Isle winch receives
the tides IA that hemisphere enjoys their
presence for half day, winch proves that
they are dependent on the SUMS daily &C
ton IN each hemisphere Although the
moon should be able to extend her feeble
attraction Olive thousand leagues even to
our ocean, wherefore should It's influence
be limited to SIX hours upon our Atlantic,
which she often illUmnes the entire night!
And how could she, when IN our nadr o.
yer the southern ocean act upon our A.
lanucl The Euupus Is a minute arm OF
the sea between NogropUnte and the cont.
uent o. Greece, Seven or eight times a
day we may perceive ITS waters agllated
and running from slue to side with consld.
cradle rapidly. Spon and Wallis, two
learned men united m bonds otirIeRdshlp
no,wIthslandlngtne similarity OF their pur-
suits aud the difference # their nations,
travelled together IN the Archipelago. Spon
was "a Freuchman and Wallis an English
man. They had the curiosity TO g and
personally examine the tide OF the Eurl-
pus, "a phenomenon as ancient as II mad
been hitherto Inexplcable. SpoH wItucs
-ed their effects aus went ms way IN ad-
mIrauon and perpleXity; but Wallis re.
manned 10 ascertain the cause OF motions
50 unexpected and so irregular. HIS
friend waited the resultoi h!s inquiries at a
lne'ghborug y,llage.-IravCrslng Euripus
10 d boat, he behed, with astonlshment,
at the further extremity a kind of dixie,
nali league in length and breadth, formed
/ Of a single rock and pierced with seven OF
I eight profound cayerns, whence ISSUED by
turns torrents OF water o. considerable vol
ume which agltaied q proportion of the
stral. He was at FIRST tempted to believe
1t was the work of man, but seeing TIN.
rock composed OF a single block, and It,
caverns ofProdigious depth, he concluded
lIt could only be the Work of nature. II,
then returned3to his companion Spon, wh,
has communicated the fact IN his narrahy,
OF travels.
Our author having read this description