Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1851-10-29

From the Scientific American.
ADMIRATION OF THE CREATORS
! TRANSCENDENT WISDOM IN THE
ADAPTATION OF THINGS.
Sulphur will not mix with water a. all
Sugar mixes with it very readily. If The
earth had been in this respect like sui phur
rain water would have run off as soon as it
fell there could have been no vegetation,
and creeks and rivers would have overfowed
many farms at every shower Had the earth
absorbed water as sugar does, we should have
sank over our heads into the mud after every
copous rain, buildings could only have been
erected upon immense rocks, bu, without
timber, for large vegetables could not have
withslood the slightest wind. Indeed the
earth would not have been habitable But
sulphur and sugar, yea, all things are mos,
wisely aud exactly adapted 10 their respec-
tive uses. By whom:
In Chill it Goes not rain because the trade
winds, which are necessary 10 agi'a.e The
wateIy and the atmospheric oceans and keep
them pure, sweep the clouds past South A
merica, and drive some of them up agains,
the Andes, where they are condensed by al
down across the level country in copinus
streams. Evaporation in this warm country
is very brisk, and the vapor rising from the
broad Pacific, being blown on the land By
| trade winds, falls in copious showers of dew,
making Chla one of the most fruitful coun-
tries on the Pacific coast. ->
In Egypt it does no, rain, and there are
no mountains to intercept the clouds, nor
broad ocean on the west to yield cop;ous
moistures supplying water Cor dew. But
the all-wise Creator and giver Of every good
and perfect gift, was at no loss to make tina,
Country what she once was-the gransry Of
the world. Egyp. is level counlry-,he
Nile, which waters it, rises in the mountains
OF the moon, as the rivers in South America
do in the Andes, causing the Nile TO over
flow its banks at proper period every year.
The rain lasts long enough, and the distance
is just great enough, to produce the food
two months after the rain has fallen.
In Greenland timber does not grow, and
train oil serves in part for fuel. The tim
Der necessary to form utensils for killing the
whale and the seal is sent by certain winds
and currents from great distances and lodged
among The islands; whence j! comes is 70
the natives unknown. And the whale retires
from his more potent executors, annually,
and takes refuge under The polar ice 10 pro-
pagate its species.
Those planets which are near the sun
have no moon and need none,-lhose far
Their off which need them have a number;
and are so large that their moons cannot
disturb their motions. II Mercury and We
nus had been as large as Jupiter, their mo-
lion round the Sun must have been rapid
to balance their centrifugal forces, as 10
shorten the siderial revolutions very much
and then their diurnal rotations must also
have been altered in proportion.
IN addition TO The winds: it was necessa-
ry tina. the ocean should be sgila,e,l by tides,
and the Sun and Moon do efsc,ually to keep
the water (Which is also impregnaed with
salt for The same purpose pure. Lakes are
constantly supplied with fresh waller which
flows of, and therefore need no nde.
1.-THE Moon were much nearer TO the earth
or larger, the tides would be increased and
overflow the fertile shore: were she farther
off, or smaller, her light would be fainter,
and the tides insufficient. for the purpose in
tended.
If The earth, or the moon, or sny of the
planets or Of their moons, or the sun, were
either larger or smaller than they are, the
harmonious motions Of all the bodies be-
longing 10 our solar system, would be dis.
lurbed in their orbits, and the whole system
must undergo new arrangement till every
body belonging to it had again balanced IT,
self ia relation 10 all The rest, or be doomed
| to destruction.
If the earth's diurnal motion were quick
ened. the ,orrid zone would be overlooked by
the ocean,-if diminished, the same calas.ro-
phe would happen to the frigid, and those
parts OF the temperate zones which are near
esl The poles, while the oceans bed would be
left dry in the equatorial region; tori: IS the
centrifugal force, produced by 'heearih's ro-
ta,ion on her axis, That maintains The ocean
everywhere al the height at which The water
now stands. Hence. also, river that runs
north or south, as does the Missipp, may
have lis mouth a. a geater distance from the
centre of the earth than lis source.
| La Place filled ve-large quarlo volumes
with description of The bodies belonging
| to our solar system, and an investigation Of
the laws which govern their motions. By
the aid of present improved telescopes, more
than hundred millions Of such systems as
ours may be counted in the universe. Now
at this rate, i, would require more printing
TO describe all the celestial bodies in Gods
boundless kingdom, so far as we can explore
il, than has been long since types and pres
ses were invented; and it is indeed very pro-
babe that human eyes haveas yet seen only
very small par. of The Great Architects
magnificent buildings.
II. r. SCHETrERLY.
All human virtues increase and Strength
an nv HE n1acuce and eXneIience Of them.