Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-11-26
WONDERFUL WORKS OF THE CREATOR.

The mariner who first crossed the Central Atlantic in
search Of world astonished when on the 10th
September, 1892 he found himself in the midst of that
great bank of sea-weedthe sea-weed meadow of OWE
dothe Saragossa sea, which, with varying breadth Of
lU0 to 30O miles, stretches twenty-five degrees of
latitude, covering 200 600 square miles in surface like
huge foatlng garden in which countless myrads of mi
mute animals find food and shelter Now it is the eddy
OF numerous rivers which collect in spot and the
cold water OF the Northern Atlantic mixing with the
warm streams OF the southern and western currents
which produce the temperature most fitted to promote
this amazing development of vegetable and animal life
What becomes of the dead remains of this vast marine
growth DO they decompose fast they produc
ed Or do they accumulate into deposes of peculiar coal
destined to reward the researches Of future geoocsts
and engineers when the Atlantic of day has become
the habable land of after time In the chart the
Pacific Ocean presented with another remarkable
instance of the influence of rivers on vegetation
From the shores of South Victoria on the Antarctic
continent stream OF cold water sixty degrees in width
1.-THE reader will recollect that in high ATTITUDES the de-
grees OF Longitude very narrow drifts slowly along
IN northeast and easery direction the Southern
Pacific until it impinges upon the South American coast
to the south of Valparaiso There it divides into two
arms one OF which stretches south and east doubles Cape
Horn, and peneraes into the South estern Atlantic
the other flows northeast and then northwest along the
coast of Chill and Peru carrying colder waters into the
warm sea- and producing colder air along the low plains
whch stretch from the shores of the Pacific to the base
OF the Andes. This current, discovered by Humboldt
and called after his lowers the temperature of the
air about twelve degrees while that of the itself
% niuen no uegreeS colder than
that Of the still waters of the ocean through which it
runs The cold air seriously affects vegetation along the
whole of the coast at the time that the cold stream
raises fogs and mss which not only conceal the shores
and perpex the navigator but extend inland also and
materially modify the climate.
The beautiful and benefcent character of modifying
influence becomes not only apparent but most impress
sive when consider, the rain-map of the world
shows u.s. that the coast of Peru rain ever falls
and that like the desert of Sahara ought therefore to
be condemned to perpetual barrenness. But in
quence of the cold stream thus running along its borders
the atmosphere loses its transparency, and the is
obscured for months together The vapors at Lima
often SO thick that the through them with the
naked eye assumes the appearance of the moons disc
They commence in the morning and extend the
plains in the form of refreshing fogs which disappear
soon after midday, and followed by heavy dews,
which precpitated during the night" The morning
mists and evening dews thus supply the place of the alb
sent rains and the yerdure which the plains is the
offspring OF sea.rver What charming myth would
the ancient poets have made out Of this striking conden
sation !-EdiaJurg RsUieu.