The New York herald., 1851-11-18

dresred by some Belgravian Parthenope as Steele
was: 81 must needs tell you that your paper | do
not much like. You are often so nice there is no
enduring you, and SO learned there is UNDER
standing, you. What have you to do with our pet
ticoats % True, our very dear Parthenope, most
true. We trust that Bloomerism will not issue
letters Of maIque and repri,als. What If belli-
cose Boomer were to carry the into the regions
masculine What If male writers had to defend
'dress coat
The Discovery or Glaciers In New Zea-
land.
The following account of tho discovery OF glaciers
at an elevation of z, 600 feet, at Milford haven,
west coast of the Middle Island, Now Zealand, i.
from letter received from Dr. Lyaii, surgeon Oh
II. M. steam vessel Acheron, Captain stokes en-
pIoyed surveyn the coasts in that locality. Iho
writer known to many of our readers as Jealous
naturalist, who accompanied Sir James Clarke
Ross during his three adventurous south polar OK
petitions" Milford Haven, New Zealand, 18Th
March, 1851. Since my last date we have been in
two or three sounds, where the water so deep
that we had to let go the anchor close to the shofe
and then make fast to the trees by hawsers In one
place we had three anchors down, and cablefast
to the trees from each quarter We spent about
fortnight in the celebrated Dusky Bay, of Cook
The harbor we are now in is Of the host remark
able have ever seen. lt Is ABOUT nine or ten mules
deep, and not above a mile or two acros, at the
widest part. The entrance is narrow, and i'm nell-
ately on entering you have immense precpices Of
5000 feet, towering right head, on both sides
Aswe went in, the engineers could see the moan
tains on both sides at once, from the stoke hole OF
the steamer. / wish you were here TO take some
sketches Of the scenery. The hills surrounding the
harbor vary in height from upwards of 900 to
1000 feet, and on many Of then ui.broken streams
OF water are seen, originating at height Of 1000
to 5000 feet There is large waterfall on the
side of the sound 200 feet, and Gnc close 10
where the ship is, between 400 TO 500 feet. There
glaciers Ia the cleft, The tops of some Of
the mountains. succeeded yesterday in getting to
the lowest Of them, which cal ,u,ated to be about
2,000 feet above the level Of tie sea | had
tremendous scramble at one place, having to
surmsunt almost perpendicular precipice Of
about ,2C0 feet. | was nply re sarded for my
trouble, however, by the nuIob ber Of now plants
found beside tho glacier" 1t may be rene nbered
tha: Mr Darwin noticed the curious phenomenon
Ct glaciers descending to the level OF tbs in the
Gulf Of Penas, on the similarly mountainous AMI
stormy west ceast Of Patagonia (la5. 4S deg. s.
and 20 com pare the opposite east and west
coasts Of Scotland, Ireland, Norway and Sweden,
South America, and tasmania, respectively, With
those Of the New Zealand islands, wthouc being
struck with tho similarity OF their prominent iea-
lures. The eastern side in an these cases is
toerably continuous in outl!ne-ilatter, drer, aud
more sunny; while the western, which is the wind
ward, is on the contrary, indented by lingering
foIds running deep into the heart OF the country,
which is mountainous, perenIiaUy humid, foggy,
tuTs, and rarely visited by tho SUMS rays.