The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-12-15
THE CLIMATE OF THR cRIMEA.


One Of the most interesting topics AT present 70 the
greatest number Of people is the climate Of the Crmea
The most contradictory statements put forth, and
the opposite reporters lind immense fault with each 9th
IL such thing psrti-colorcd shield had
been heard Of Yet who thinks Of laying down the law
about the climate of Switzerland any other
GUS country without saying what region in the earth
the air he ~ talking about man. talking about
the st. Bernard Convent, will give very different
count Of the climate of The Alps from summer resident
at Inerlacken; but both right, and do not hear
that they call one another romancers Yet when
tells of the Crimcan blasts and fross, and another
Of the Crime an fruits and flowers the vine poue
myrtle. and other delicate productions. it 10
to either that both may be right. The truth Of
the matter will be welcome at such time; and here
IL il.
The Crmea is remarkably diversified in climate for its
extent-and its extent Is considerable It's wioest
stretch between and west is above 200 miles and
from north 10 south ii measures lo miles. lu PENN
suls Of such extent as this the winter or summer
prospects any army depend where they are 70 be
placed within It's II would be even IL the sur
face were as uniform such extent Of SIDE
try possibly be: but when as in this case there are
varieties than lind from the shores Of AXE
Lncerne to the top of Mount Pste the great ques
ton is whstlocaty thinking Of when we talk Of
the winter prospects OF our troops in the Crnaea.
There j. doubt about the cold over the larger
proportion Of the There is doubt about the
icy character Of the winds which blow without being
intercepted, from the Arctic Ocean to the higher
houses and gardens OF Snipherorol. There is no
doubt that from Kertch TO simrheropci and EDWARDS
10 above Scbastopol the steppe is exposed % these
intolerable winds; that the rising ground from
rerekop to Smpheropolis the last place that any com
Iuander would think OF
in tents huts This is the very ground Of constant
that the enemy cannot he further reinforced
for months TO and that the recent reinforce
ments Of Kind TO he dreaded after they have
been (as they have been goriousy once or twice re-
pulsed Nothing be palmer than the accounts that
have reached OF those reir forcements-that they
brought very rapidly q pce, which.neans IN the
light carts of the country which the very latest Kind
Of carriage that can traverse the seppe in autumn and
gpripe and which from the very gbiness which enh-
bes them to do are incapable OF carrying stores
That bullock wagons not used we snow-not only
because they cannot pass the mud Of the Paurda seppe
but by the speed with which the troops were conveyed
from odessa The accounts in fact, all agree that the
Russian troops in state OF torment Il not dissoiu-
ton from cold and hunger 30 whchis added with every
appearance Of probability that they very short oi
ammunition.
Al another season anytod might say that the Cars
way Of making Is 20 shove away his dead and pour
down fresh masses; but at this season not even his
iron will can drive that business The Maud nj rere
kop and the north and south OF IT, u ordinary mud
II IN viscid that carriages are brought 20 complete
stop: aud the heaviest the soonest A. TO its depthh
is commonly called bottomless.N And When IL gets
frozen the surface Is still impossible because the
IL not like that Of the interior steppe hard and smooth
but hllocky, shifting and unequal in hardness that
IL rarely becomes III for trac and in any degree,
before January Throughout the winter, tho peril irou,
teapess and snowrts II such that The idea Of seada
troops and ammunition is too Wild TO need consideration
ut present That the force the other must con-
uuer there il doubt there doubt That the alter
native to the Russians Il unconditional surrender Rea
son surely decides that at this season the on question
about which il shall be hangs the fact whether
there is il not ammunition enough in secss'opo' of
ali Russian purposes this winter, All the evidence that
has reached seems to show that there y not The
enemy Ia discovered pretty clearly that tbey cannot
take ours We then holding the have the means Of
conquest by reinfcrccments OF and ma erals snd,
the same time the means Of retreat " fbe season
niue against us rs IL Is in fact IN our favor
Our army has suffered much and IA no doubt suffering
much .; the present moment bits rational iucgnest