New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-06-28
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IL il somewhat relnal kahle. pet has been pro
nohnred tias THAT M have no right Il
call III that Tie United States has done ~
lnach during lsN yslrs d It's national existence
TOWARDS improving tie condition Of trade ana com
taeree over DID world by means Of governmental ex
/ friora lions, Is any other power.
Not content with onnoissanees Of its own terri
tory charts of its own coasts made gratutously
public has the more remote corners Of
The globe and given to the world Artic and ant Artc
surgsy discoveries among the philippine and Spice
Islands a aeandings III Tie Red and y elbow Seas:
channels Southern has sent Lieut. ynch
map out the Red Sea and To endeayor 80 bring
home some memorial Of Sodom and Gomollah has
dispatched Lieut. Herndon To follow up and describe
the mouth, and another to cross over
Chiiiand Peru search for the hairs Of its head
to Lieut.. likes to sail teal eternity i
he pleased provided he would send olle man back
with Of the South Pole, and a certificate
having set the stars and there first While
Kane was dispatched to the same with
the North Pole, TWAS the mist 81 our ms
sionaries that natures Is more powerful
than Uncle SANS otherBis ould oubtedly
EhaYe been successful ISL AT
But asids from these watery expeditions in quest
of old 0ceanus, great deal practical work has
tbeen accompli Every e1ped tion has been ac-
eompanied by scienti and lterar men, and though
they have brought back no memories Or monuments
from The Metropolis, they have brought the grains,
seeds ana plants every LAND, the stars Of every
cline the trade Of every coast They have measured
the ocean lower under and higher under Kane;
they have explored the Amazon further, and the Red
Sen more CAREFUL than any other nation &.
They have imported the bull calves Of Bashan, and
the effiges Of Babylon. They have traced vegetable
life North and South, until even the hardy lichen
became seEubbY and Yibrated this great pendulum Of
energy from poles ID the equator. They have
sought for aids to manu- actures, ag
rieatIe in all lands while at home they have kept
q corps Of men watching the winds, lest some one
Should whistle BY with an unWritten history,
Tosthis proud summary Of the magnificent manner
IL which our glorious country is paying her debt to
those who first rounded Cape Horn, we have another
not less valuable addition to make. a voyage Of Sci
entife explorations made by Lieut Gilliss to the
Southern hennsp during the years 1s49, '5O
'52 has been published by Congress as far as the sec
ond volume which, through the attention Of the Hon
George Eusts, now lies before u.s. and has recalled
these memories Of its predecessors. Tits a magnif
cent monument Of American enterprise and Ameri
can workmanship being as handsomely gotten Up as
any book we have ever seem It treats of the Alps
and Pampas minerals Indian remains birds reptiles
fishes shells plants, seeds, fossil animals
and fossil shellsof every thing Each subject is
compendium BY some one whose attainments in thai
department qualified him for the undertaking, d
which the execution is sufficient proof The whole i
enriehed with pictures drawings and illustrations d
which those belonging to the department Of natura
philosophy are magnfcently eolored. This work
forms volume in the national library with which
eyery scholar will be pleased, and Of which every
american citizen may be justly proud It surpasses
even the very yolnninous work which cmbodies The
results Of Wilkes expedition and is one American
ism without politics ssr partisanship, Of Whitehall
who are shielded by the stars and stripes may be
/ Justly profld, iis II E n "A 3aA alt }a Nj