The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1848-02-16

lunctioh vi lnalcr, or faculty OF mind.
Education so improves as to appear al
most omnipotent-but improvement, is the
boundary oft powers, it creates nothing
The existence of Tropical Vegetable be.
ing in the hot-house, is no exception, for
here, the intelligence, in obedience TO the
laws of the physical condition of the eli
mate, from whence it was taken artifcially
produces a similarity in climate and the
life an growth of the plant is thus continued.
The strictest congruity perva'les in the
| physical constitution of animal and vegeta-
bic beings, and the physical condition of the
geographical limits OF their existence.
The bill and talons of the Eagle are in
harmony, with its mode of existence.
The branchial respiratory apparatus of
the finny-tribe are in harmony, with the
dense medium in which they exist.
The physical condition of most tropical
plants are such, that if submitted to an at
mosphere at freezing they would suffer vi
olence and death.
Fresh-water Fish, carried into the dense
medium Of saltwater would suffer violence
and perish.
The Oyster, a being low in the scale of
animal life, would no. live one day in fresh
water pond.
The Buffalo of the temperate region of
this continent, could not exist one week, in
the cold region of the arctic circle, if he was
so constituted that he could withstand the
cold, yet the sparsity of vegetable support
would cause him to perish.
While the physical condition of polar
Bear is every way fitted for the low lempera-
ture, and its modes of lfe-the polar Bear
would perish under tropical sun: from
heat and want offs peculiar food.
The continent Of North America, from
the arctic region to Terra del Fuego, pre-
sen's Fauna and Flora, differing widely
from the animal and vegetable being of
the other parts of the surface of this our
globe. And if we go back and explore the
History of organised being as presented
in the geological epochs Of this our continent
presented in those "vestiges of creation"
the fossil fauna, and flora, we are on the
careful exploration astoundcd at the fact,
that among all this wreck of former worlds,
not a single species is fully represented, by
beings of the present creation. And even
these fossils present the fact Of geographical
distribution Of organic being the wider in
range, as the thermal condition of the
earth in these remote periods, was probably
greater and more extended from the equa-
tor than at present.
In the polar region of this our continent
we see the Bear and the Rein Deer, the prin-
cipal mammal, the physical condition of the
Bear is such that he luxurates in frigidity.
The Reindeer subsists on the lichens,
the principal vegetable product of these
wintry regions, his organism is in harmo-
ny, with this kind of food-nor would he
live in the sunny south.
The Buffalo and the Elk are distributed
over the wide range of the western prairie,
and they luxuriate on the widespread vege-
BILE carpet, nor could these unwieldly ami
mails, live in the dense forest, SO sparce Of
grass-or in the cold barren regions ofthe
North
The Wolfhas greater range, his physi-
cal condition, is in harmony with his hab-
its and distribution
The Alligator has southern limit, nor
could he live, through the comparatively
mild winter the middle States. To bask
inatropical sunshine, suits his physical con-
dition the best. The Crocodile Of the
Nilotic Vally though possessing the same
general form, is very distinct animal
80 (FoR THE ABBEvILIE BANNRR.)
Nh. Editor, - Sir: Before leaving Mexi.
CO, / was informed ofa report in circulation,
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