Litchfield enquirer., 1854-02-23

stances have occurred of the moving Of sand banks by violent storms, so that this natural clearing of estuaries is prevented. A hollow in the bed of the ocean is often filled up by the same means that Lake Geneva is filled up, i. e. by the sediment lof the water which enters it. But the land ard rock washed from the coast Is not entirely formed into sub marine strata as has been before stated.
 Another example of this is the gradu. al increase of the Isthmus of Suez. which was probably only sub marine sand bank. and has since been formed entires ly of marine currents. Still another, is the gradual filling up of the German Ocean. The south coast of Asia Minor is also slowly gaining upon the sea, and the strata formed are not the usual mate> rials of sediment, but are pure travertin, which the rivers and streams carry down in great abundance.
 I (B) The encroachments of the sea at Cape May on the north side of Delaware Bay, averaged at a time when observas tions were made. nine feet per year. At Sullivan's Island, of the coast of South Carolina. one. fourth of mile of land was carried away between the years l78S and 1 l7s6. In 1888. . violent current in Lake Erie forced a passage some nine feet deep. and nearly 1000 feet wide through Long Point Peninsular. "A sea current (before alluded to> which runs some four miles an hour along the coast of South America, carries the sediment of the Amazon to the coast of Guiana, where it forms range of islands which are fast becoming joined to the main land. The materials which the Orinoco depo> sits near its mouth rapidly extends the coast of Trinidad, while that which is taken up by tEe sea currents is deposited in the Gulf of Mexico.
 The rivers which descend from the table lands of Mexico run full of the materials of the wasting mountains which this ocean current carries to various DOT. tions of the globe.
 The narration of the various knewn operations of water as 2 carrier in the geological world would fill volumns while the sapposed changes which this element has probably wrought. and the circum> stances and various proofs of it's actions. cannot farther be traced in this essay. tn fact. life time would be too short to mention aN the localities even. in which water acts as carrier, as much so. as to mention every particular place on which the sun shines. Hence we can only ard with the utmost propriety infer, that. whenever and wherever water runs, it carries portions of the substances over and through which it runs.
 VII. Water is carrier of it's own elements, oxygen and hydrogen, in the production of volcanic 6,es. Perhaps this is not the only source of internal heat. yet the proximity of volcanoes 10 the sea. and various other facts, have convinced philosophers who have long investigated the probable cause of these phenomena that water is the principal source of volcanic heat.
 Earthquakes and hot springs are also connected with the internal 6.es of the earth. and probably depend principally , on water for their action and results. Ii . is supposed again that the vast quantity of earthly matter which is supplied 10 the ocean by rivers and springs is through the medium of volcanoes. and by the car- rying agency of water returned 10 the earth. But the limits Of this essay for. bid the discussion of this subject.
 VIII. It has been stated that water is often carrier of miasmata. It is sl.o carrier of the germs, or causes of dis> ease in other forms. The great impurily of largo proportion of drinking wa,e, and the absolute filth of great quantities of it, particularly in cities. has und"ubt. edly been the cause of great amount of disease and death. for poison, as well as food and drink. and medicine is car ried into the body and through tine sys. tenn. Water is carrier in grea. num- Der of chemical processes. in the manu factures, and in the arts of life.
 l The processes of washing, both me- chanical and chemical, are car, jed on by the carrying agency of water. The chsm- ist pursues his investigations by the ald of substances which water holds in solu- ton and carries 10 his various vessels and through his many materials. The me,s aIlu,gist employs water to wash outAnd carry away the impurities of his va,iou< ores; the paper maker uses l, io carry the pulp to the drying cylinde,s. The paint of the dlaiismsn is carri.d by wat CT to his plans. while the water carrird hand of the student spreads the wale. carried ink upon this thrice water carried paper wish his water carried gsose>quill, as he smokes in his water carried mee,s- chaum. his water carried scafsilal,i. ! Whatever we eat or drink. or wear. was probably onGe. or it may be . hun dred times transported ty wafer. while