Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-06-21

America has diminished the ocean liquid sucty to alter
the Of them further o the sea-
One remarkable fact in this dmnuton Of the ses Of the
Mediterranean which appear to be higher nowlhan they
were formerly, 10 particularly shown in the Strasf Gbra
tar and the passage of the Dardaneles De Mek noticed
these facts sixty years snce but attributed hel to very
different causes from those herein stated This cess Of
isand-making among the most wonderful and snpe Of
Nature We first perceive an innumsrable and alpst inn
perceptble number Of minute insects forming so mass
which in time reaches the surface Of the tn coral
rock reef now becomes the home of muudes of sh fish,
that die and deposite their shells and gil up the reefco-
pacty, with the water kep attaches itself to the Scks
and the action of the during gales tears much Of
deposes among the crevices, where II decays
gossa plant finds its way by the nnumeabe currents ohe
these islands, and thrown upon them in vast gun
titles forming temporary soil the sea-brd seeks 'he Plfe
for food the sea-weeds contain many myrisds Of little ma
ne insects The birds enrich the depositss already there
and now comes the everlasting mangrove, sezng hold will
its endrils Of the sharp points of coral and hmly at
taching itssf them. Here, them is island, the who'll
Of which has been formed from the aod contents Of th
ocean, which hsd been held in solution from the beginning
Of creation nothing of which can be returned to H. Tho
whole substances have been rendered nsoube In water BY
the peculiar chemical process which rendered solid Here
PtOCcoo WHICH uuS uucs cnCioSo Ho Onpuouu 1ou
and Gulf Of Mexico, making them lakes absacing from
the gulf and this nearly all their salt soda, and ms and
leaving fresh water lakes similar to those Of Erie, Ontario
&C., which at former period may have been salt And
this process the Pacific will be narrowed into
strait not wider than few days from continent to cont
nent. This stupendous work of continent making one
cessary the future wants Of man, who must eventually in
in numbers populate all the known arabic lands
awaiting bis increase. These forming lands are situated
within those parallels conducive productveness where
the materials required for the sustenance the human
easily grown and distant from the nhosptabe soils and
climates Of the extreme north south where they be
rapidly created and vegetation brought forward much by
the aid Of climate as soil.
Our attention is drawn to the numerous shelfsh prnc.
paly from their beauty, and them mostly
nament for the pallor table, But when examine them
closely, how admirably do find all their parts arranged
nothing wanting, extra space, departure from scientific
principles their architecture beautiful their coong and
naments eIquisite strength perfect And these little ami
mails with barely enough life and motion enable them to
slowly from place to place. the architects employed
n forming islands and extensive continents for the
future of man, and slowly but surely, diminishing the
vast unfathomed TO- the measure Of
siratpossibly to rvulet Whilst is filling all the
earth with his progeny, the little coral insect and it's adunc
filling the with islands and continents for mans
inheritance. Yours, &c.
w. D. PORTER