Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1850-08-01
sTRoUDsBURG, COUNTY Pa THURSDAY AUGUST 1850

and the remains of the shell fish still attached, are
now elevated thirty feet above the level OF the sea-
In South America the coast of Chill for distances
of hundred miles, has been seen to spring up
suddenly with tremendous commotion both of the
land and of the ocean. Harbors have been destroy
ed, the soundings rendred shallower, and as a
proof that the interior of the country rose slill
higher, the streams and brooks showed an in
creased descent, and more violent rapids The
most noted of the upheavals occurred SO lately as
in the years 1888, '35 and '37.
Another class Of proof of these risings and de-
pressions, occurs in mines. The strata are bro
ken by smooth crack, and ON one side of this
cleft they are sometimes raised up or settled down
many feet, so that the beds of ore or coal come 10
sudden stop. and the miners with much difficult
ty are obliged to reach upward and downward to
find their combinations.
A still more stupendous class of evidences are
presented by both continents and all large islands
for without exception they have all been repeat
edly submerged beneath the ocean. And as the
ocean cannot rise up above its universal level, the
continents must bodily have been lowered down.
And these astonishing undulations, both of rising
and falling, bespeak fluid in,erior-a heaUy fu
id of molten rock on which the hardened surface
may float, and admit of being elevated and de-
pressed. This external hardened she'll would be
too large from time, as the interior cooled and
contracted, and hence like an a1ch it would press
latteraily against itself, rise up into mountains,
sink down into valleys and ocean beds, and be-
come fractured for with so fiat and thin an arch
it would not bear its weight.
x. The Specific CRAFTY ofMe Earth.--By as
tronomy the earth can be weighed, and its density
ascertained And its known density is not so great
as the pressure Of its materials resting one upon
another would naturally produce if these materials
were at the ordinary surface temperature This
deficiency of natural density is enormous that
it bespeaks the continued operation of great and
general cause--a cause extensive with the
whole interior of the globe; and the only adequate
cause of which we have the best knowledge is this
interior heat. Heat expands all bodies and makes
them lighter in proportion to their bulk
XII The Shape of the Glo6e.-This is nearly
round: 1t is some what depressed at the poles,
and raised up about the equator precisely in the
form which fluid receives when whirled around
II is the shape the present ocean takes-having its
polio diameter 26 miles shorter than its equation
al diameter. And this peculiar form of the pre-
sent solid parts of our GLOBE indicates former
state Of fudity-a fluid caused by natural interior
heat.
XII. The Ne5ular Theory of the Solar Sys-
tem.--This theory rests for its foundation not up
on nebular appearances properly so called, for
these by glasses may be resolved into stars. but
upon multitude of facts in the constitution of the
solar system. The solar system is single piece
of mechanism. Any one ofits parts is incomplete
alone. 1t must be regarded as unit. A single
1ntelgencer, with one most simple design has
called it into being, and that by natural means
Its whole structure corresponds with the nebular
theory of its origin. None other is conceivable.
Such theory is entirely conservant with all the
known laws of matter: there is not single JUG
not single difficulty. The facts in its favor
not be given here-they would occupy at least a
column, and they, in order to be distinct, should
stand alone. Moreover the natural condition Of
matter as chiefly behold it is fiery condition
The sun we must regard as a great ignited mass
so also the fixed stars. Some of the fixed stars
go oui--they loose their brightness and shine no
more, like our earth The mighty changes going
on among them should prepare US for our present
argument. Our sun, too, has occasional spots
probably of solid material floating on Its surface
Some of them are 10000 miles in diameter, and
occasionally they split and break into fragments
like piece of ice. Some philosophers supposed
that they were openings in shining envelope
through which the dark body of an obaque sun is
seen. Such openings might close up from the
sides, but could not present appearance of split
ting breaking solid.
Thus while astronomy teaches Us that our earth
is planet and shines with reflected light like Ju
piter aud Venus, geology by her doctrines of in
terror heat, leads to suppose that it shone
by its own native lustre, was burning, glowing
glittering star. F..