New-York tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1841-1842, 1842-03-23

were th.n the arctic and antarctic clrcIcs. anu oui
present circ of this name were nearly ue no
NC. of that age. In another period OF i4,yo0
,hs axis ascended aoo,her:2". so eighth
-se.,;o, of the circle and was ,aen at angle of
40 The tropical circles had then advanced from
The poles. and the arctic and antarctic circles from
the equator, until they conceded. and were both
couidi,tant from the equator and the poles This
Inn.t haze been an age Of the world Of great inter
c-r and improvements, though far inferior TO that
which we now enjoy. There i much reason
for slpposing from the evidence 10 be gathered
from Dr. Stukeiey's curious and celebrated work
on the ruins OF Stouehenge and Abury. that these
marvellous and mysterious structures We're erected
in this age, for they are built at an angle OF a."
with our present meridian, and their astronomical!
character arising probably from their beng dcvot-
c, to the worship Of the Sun, is palpable as TO
be scarcely questionable. And there are many
other aHcient remains Of solar temples which APP.
pear to indicate the era OF their erection By SIM
liar rule Indeed the chief temple of Solomon.
a. well as those other temples which he erected
when ne openly became Sun-"orshlper, afford
similar Indications, and there arc some curious
reason. for thinking that the magnetic needle
though enormously supposed TO be quite modern
discovery was used in the ancient mysteries IN
connection with the ar, OF architecture. The archi
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and evcrv builder becoming. initiated into the Sc
cre,s Of his craft was deprived Of iron and all other
| metals. css, as il, is said it should affect those
operations q: that instrument which werc among
the subjects of his study; and We albanian
with the tradition that no implement OF iron was
used in the crcctionof the great Jewish temple TO
! which 7 have refcrred--a tradition however,
which NAV be rather svrnbolically than literally
! true.
The third division OF the circle, brings thin
That amount Of the obliquty OF the ecptic (which
the earth is now situated, and which may be re-
garded as the commencement ii the . Golden \ &c "
of the poets the :" Millennium of the prophets
and the C0li-yug, or genial age OF the jindoos
| II is remarkable and most striking fact that
adopting the rate OF motion before mentioned, "a
The. mean rate for the whole period of 100000
wears, the date Of the commencement at this go-
riouS period, upon which the ancents expatiatcd
wi,s ucl f.rvor and he'pocts and prophets in such
glowing numbers, is also the date OF the Christian
era. That the heather world expected their go,-
den arc to begin about this period is evident from
the 9TH Ecloguc Of Virgil. which regret have
hot at hand til read YOU, which i. warmly por
.;vcd in the prophecy of the Cuna.on Sybil She
speaks OF the brit, Of the iiIusrious bow in whose
| reign the earth was to become a paradise of hap
pincsS aud fertility, the Hebrew prophets did
and the ina gnations of the writer's Of most. il not
all, the enlightened calien nations fondv dwelt
upon this are that which their astronomers pre-
(!icted would be uslcrcd in at that time. ics, in
1000 years from the date of the birth of Christ,
allowing for the gradual decrease of our wears from
800 days to 800, which the year will then become.
tie axis Of the earth viii be perpendicular to the
plane of the cclipnc; the lnagnotic and the tcrre
lial axes will then coincide, and of course, the
magnetic and the crrcSta equators. The mag
nelic worthless will crown the poles of the earth,
and the magnetic and Terrestrial meridians will eve
rvwherc coincide the DAYS and nights instead of
being six months each, as they were in the are of
harror, when the axis parallel to the plane of
ccliptic, will each be OF twelve hours the sunwill
shine from pole topole in every part Of the Earths
annual orbit, and perennial spring will load its
valleys with fertility, clothe its hills with vcrdure,
even TO the tops of its mountains The last me.
nornls of the ':iron age, or ice period, WHICH
still linger upon these SUBMITS and hcsird the
frozen with thols-rbbod ice, uud stupcndou.
monuments Of congelation which would seem to
BE imperishahle, will melt away, and flowers and
l2rests will take their place. Already have sc
animals which existed prior to the last frozen
period, ard probably the degenerate relics of
previous golden age, thawed out of their crystal
>epulchres, and exposed to our wondering gaze
Will lNtlI DUncS lltll lush, uRu CNcH ttitlt
covering, still in perfect preservation And the
,iaw will continue until the whole earth is as
Summer garden, producing spontaneously all that
is necessary to supply the wants of and
AL other living beings, almost ncomparably
numerous =, they will become at that period, and
the longevity of ali will be at its nnximum.-
There shall be no more thence infant of DAYS,
says the prophet lspiah. nor an old man tllat
hath not filled his days. for a child shall die an
hundred years old SO great, in the last gold
age Of the Scriptures, will be the age Of the
mature man.
Whether those huge animals of which We find
The iemains, and which were the creations OF that
period, will appear again, by gradual transition
from other races, it may Gc in vain TO inquire; but
another prophets vision of tho VALLEY of dry bones
would seem sanction the expectation. Certain
is that the i5th degree or latitude and the ad
iaccnt attitudes, in which these relics of stu
pendous organization chiefly found will then.
III before, be the most fertile aud productive both
rf animal and vegetable life. being midway be-
tween the equator, to which all rivers arc now tend
ing, and which will then be covered with water,
and exposed to the direct rays OF the sun. and the
l,.lnr regions, which though free from ice and Sc
| vcrc cold, will be without the dcws of night be-
| cause there the will never set, but move round
the horizon in perpetual apparition.
Yer this very place would seem 10 have been the
paradise OF the first parents OF that branch Of the
human race to which we belong, Tor we find it
stated in the scripture allcgory in which their
i described, that both the tree Of life, which in
| trrprct as the magnetic axis Of the earth and the
tree Of knowledge of good and evil by which lli-
crStand the axis of rotation. were in the midst of
the garden, Gen. il. 9, and iii. 3. rs these axes
demon,rably will be in the paradisaical age
Indeed this beautiful and much nisapprchended
,cgory, instead of being literal account of
diaboli;a miracle, in which an animal without the