New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-18

! fwn.ov N dead hfccs. 1ne surface ~ooI1 ns ~
Fcsnec ,esD - ss,s 10 u failure OF crops aer all
Dee ~oel1 .ons Continue 10 occur through all
10 ~ s,ae ir tie Mamna'isH Age
Cotf M 10 Isxe OBJ. rived tbHt the Continent oi
=. Agsln a.;.. has never been the deep oceaas bed,
norm An, < "A comparatively shallow scss, ana az
Du' ~ lind, eod was marked ont IN s goat
uhss ever IN Tie carries; Siiunan Inc ssme ~
"or,d BY lie Neneuil, and agPan bow 70 ~ Tbo
~ssf opfion auio,g Aoeiiczn teoiog'sts. i1e
IN AZ lin - NAV have been measured o! 'he V'ou-
..rd feet, sat 10 by mirr O., =. T., a.,
Du ing the frs half Of The Lower ShnriAh m .ue
~ erst ans west were alike IN being covered by the
-. In tie f,s or Poisdam period, the Couiinent"as
at ber4sth lie ~ face. In The next, or lren'ol
e,;oo The depth greater giving Pufer "siers io1
sIrndant marine life. AferssTd The east aud west
- =; ce.,r.I widely diverse in ther fornstions:
Ia e.touSr as NJ Hall ord the Prcfs N'gers nave re-
mari ed were in pro,r - over the wes tnet IS me
- ION row the gresi Misi-sippi valley, beyond the
A,pnlacliats while dsioues and sha e were ior'n-
rsrrro north easer1, New-York south and southwest
,s,ou, D Virginia The former therefore. has been re-
s,rd A. or area Of oeeper ~h'er, toe later As m
.eptIa sbslo~. When 10' ae'nely sme,seu' IN r's1;
he r,cion toward the Atlanti; border, aher~rd
si.ed INTO The Appnlschians already, even before
he Lover ii unan Era closed, the higher part OF the
Land. il lay rs great 81 sAnd-bank partly hem
ong N O vast coi'ins bta lagoon, where cDras, cocr-
aits, and niolluscs gnw ia profusioni thus partly
sejerning the already existing Atlantic from The IN
tTier Vaiers
Ths oscillations or changes OF levol the continent
through the tpNr ShurirD ana lcNOhlth Dtl soDle
reelei &c 20 this borccr region Of The oontneYt the
Formations ap, roach ccde from IT, aud sotnelnes
past il cor ding the limits of the oscillations east
ward or re. Asog the course Of the border T.
sef hefe ere d. go subsOerces in slow prOgrs as
shown by the thickness Of the bede IL would require
pueh deioiI il ueirte rh,se points, anc leave them
viii ihiS bare neDiiOn.
The Hu son River add Champlsin valleys appear 10
love baS eir Incl origin at The epoch that closed
ibe Lover Siiuris for while the preceding formations
cross Ibis ie-ion and con ue over New gland, the
ro ks OF lie Ma arr and Oncndsga veiods lte brat
fs0 Of tie IIeT SDDrIaD hin out n New FORK before
nAtiing the buoson River hr. Logan has rec0Z
pz the divisiO Of America 10 he northeast into 40
bash hy obiciioal axis along Lake Champlan,
and ObsefNes sso that Disturbances began az early
a. sst o. tie close Of tn Loser suriaD mentioning,
too Il at there il acFualy q want OF contOrmi y al
GasI = between az bed OF h. Upper and Loser ohu-
rnIl-HI hiier JrOOf Of tie violence thai closed The
IAW,r SiUTian era.
But let us II ass onward in our geological records.
All The yaiious oscillations that IN SLOW move
ruent ilroul the Suran, Devoian and Car ,Oniier-
ous aoee and iCh were IBcreasi I cir frequency
lrouebou' the last, iaisng and dipping the land Ia
n AL, III creations rcmDu ions OF the great pc
nod Of revolution, well slucdaed, as already OBJ
served, tJ the PfoessOrs Rogers, when tho Atlantic
bor e. from Labrador To ahaIn l0ug IN pre- osraon,
WIZ ht last folded NJ into ana the Suudn,
pyOnian and Ca b"l,if rpus rocks were bakei or
en- sBllized. No such event hal happeLed since the
revolution closing the Azoi; p"rOi. From that time
on all tie various bees OF ding ages up TO the
top Of the CaTbobffOus hi been laid do IN ia hori
zontal or ar, horizontal IayeIs-oveT New x ahd
o. well az H. The Wtst-fbr the cOuinon from New
England westward, have reason to believe, w.s
ths d ls6ily piuin either above beiO the Faer
thste al ben no disurha' e,t minor uplllls
The de ostr with small exceptions were single a1-
brOl en- u cord, until ihr Appalachian revolution
This eIO,h, although une Ot vat DIS VrOahees, Ia
more co1tcy GOnlompla Cd g. an epoch OF the SLOW
mel sued movement OF All agency oil l1conceivaDle
power, Ir,esIng forward hom TIE ocean toward Tue
Esrth-wtsi; for the rocks wee fol led mp without tie
chaotic des rucliOn that sudden violence would have
besu likely 10 prOdaCe lie greatest force ana lts
earliost beginning 70 the northeast have al
luded 10 the di-turba beweef toe Upper and Lower
SiITaD led, If Carl the north. AuOtnr epoch OF
CtlrbHI CO. stili marsed, preceded iaccO rdIng
10 Air Log al h. carhoDerour beds H. those north
eastern regions; and Nes En- land while mmesS
10 the profound chrTnetcr aud ,hOroughnoss oi the
AppeJsCLiab revolution, att sts also u tho greater
en- NJ bui toward its DOrt-eas ern linn 4. some OF
The sIJon strata ~orc aIa do VA mere IN Rhode
bland, d0y md saLd and inyeB OF vegetable d.
frr, tlsy came forth from The Appalachian fires as
YOU have en-, The bed, cOntOr ed the coal layers
hard e,lious anthracite srsuhite 10 pia es,
&c agilleseOus sands AID cays, stalzed into tai
cose ,Chisi, or even gneiss anu :, chi e.
Tlese very oOu 'ede, - Involved IN the crystal
linz r,cle eie par Of the ROOF thai tie crystaiiza
ton al NV T. land iOuk place after the coal aye.
Fo-eils In NJ me aud Vermont aid to the eyi'
dei &C. The quit roi over he c"ntiuenf, for The
10 u!0r siuu and uuois' ufhed duOn OF the
rocke e tie Suriu Devoulan a' Cmb"niferOus Toy.
mt iots, slOws dat Ia neither Oi those a-es co"ii
have Gkei Ilsce.
The cnsih Of time occupie by his revolution is be
,oi d III estimate EvcA vcsi-e 81 Tue ancleut ~
iorifsIuus lite of The cOilcn disappear cd before A.
% IL ToIc P,inhen ponrd passod vim ne varied
m,: yet America, # We may trus' NEGATIVE evidence,
itil ,maItd 6tsO6 ate. The Trieste period heAt had
its prousiOn OF lvns beiups i" Europe and over 2OJJ
"a. of rocks AmoriIa through all tll lfs Ia err
Dor ions Was still n black u0r I'LL near Che beginning
OF lie Jut5ttc period DO we find any traces OF neT
he or even 81 auOih Tcck above the CarbOolcrOus.
Nlat better evidence could We have than the ms
toy of tie ocla ious Of b" surface, from the earliest
ii nrau 10 ic cOse 81 the Co boiferous age and the
fnsl erecting of tie series IN this Appalachian revcu
ton tibet tao great features Oi toe cOntnout had beea
max, 4 gu, nOm the oirs = umei Even II the A1oc,
TIE ,au.c northeast and south yes, trend may be o.
serVtd "a Northern Nes io.k aud beyond Lake 81
peTOf eiosng bet 81 hOnl tie codrse OF the great
AzOc lands was partly eHs aud west, the same sy--
I IN Of q, namicr ben to some txiont apparent,
or at sa-t H. development.
The frs event N the records ter The Appalachian
revoluii is tie gathering NJ of the souds ani rag
ntD OF lie orNsralized rocks and sch ste along tho
Atlantic border into belsnOt over the Sno'e sa lace
hut M ain va v which lie parallel with the Appa-
achun c, sip ma Nhch evidently result Of TOO
folohgs o. that re- oiution. The beds ara ths red
sanos love aud slaes vch stretch on Tor 10 mites an
the CtnnfC icut VALLEY; am similar sirdta occur m
n al q, "a ern New-Yoik ia N,wj,rsoN, Virginia AID
North CaIOhes. These long valleys are behevsf 70
have ben tsuarts or nVer course. Ihe period ot
ihtse deposits is regarded as 'ho earlier Jurasdi by
Piof VIM ID. ROgtis. DR. Htchcock suppO'es thtt
portion OF The precedin. on In. sic prot nay DC
pIItseD'sd Nam e che los ers show % tneir shfk-
cfacks ripcle-marks and Footprints as o hers have
Oh cived That they 'Ottned shallow waters or
exi ted As an exposed mud tat but ulsy accumua'ed
ill a ~ were over thousand feet TIN * IA Nugiu'a,
"a in New EugaB Two ar three thousand according
10 DC loeest estimate. Hence tho land must have
bes sinking 10 depth equN q this thickness, as ,No
a,cumu ations vent ON, siree the layers we've formed
suec. ssiyely az or near the surface.