New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-05

LAYING aside the comparison Of the differing cnstss
In our day Of points the sae parallel Let ~ rscsx
TO the remarkable changes Of climate from warm u
cold seasous, and vice versa which history tells
have taken place. and which psleontology 90 ven
a,tests. Greenland, according to the old DsAish
chronicles. was discovered and colonsed about the
year ss3 by the Mortimer who gave 10 IL its presess
name from the rch verdure which clothed lie neoun-
tsins sId lie valleys.
The old chorepspbers, the annals OF Born Jonssss
and the manuscripts Of IvsI Bardsen, inform us tAss
there were two colonies lying respectively csss -
west and that they called Bygds but ~ to Their
extent there IS not much known. However, II mas&
have been considerable, a. 10 the west Bygd there
were four churches and in the cast Bygd, cathedral,
eleven churches three four inconsistencies and three
royal demesnes Ofthe history Of these colonies there
are % continuous accounts, and their communicates
with Europe having mystsriously ceased about the
fourteenth century they were forgotten untl Arch
b1lop wolckepdoIf made proposition 10 the DsnisA
Government to search for them, bat hn msfohass
and digrsce frustrated the PLAN and thus lar I'll ~
tenp,s to rediscoysr them have been in vAin. That
Of Chri.tan ". and Frederick " having avaiisd
botLiDg, Davis, Hudson AID Scoresby we're unsae-
cesful; Cssten Richardson never reached the shoss
Ohen yallos found only solitary ruin and the erps-
dicn Of Egede and Rothe did not approach TO With,
ten males CT the coast Within few centuries. stnss
the colonization by Eric 1sude . wondsrfsl change
has taken place in this land The reindeer sad The
hare have both disappeared from the Bygds, and the
once fertile fields DOW occupied By enormous GA
ees; the shores too, are bsset with immense hsids
a ice which forbid the spprosch OF the inqairiag MAJ
iner; and If the 6ourishIng Scsndiossias ools
nies nothing remains bat vague innsticns. Hist9ry
hrsot them teariy fre hundred yesD ego and re-
ecTosd nothing u their fate.
Tst the climate q Greenland wa once lar dinssess
from the prs sent well shown by the lsts dscovsrss
Of Tayer who found in 1850 Ignite ia great quantities..
ard whole trunks Of trees and m1ses Of crbosissl
wood sons Ct them retaining traces Of the bark, asd
sssutfg two 10 three feet In diameter. At prosess
il is impossible 10 fnd plsSt more thaa FOO. h
hight, or nesafirg more then the thickness Of he
lit;s fr GER IN diaEster; aid N the most favored spoa
IL the south Of Greenland il 10 rare 70 zee bash sx
ee,dDg nsn's hight, or thicker than The wns. and
these c9rsst Of the SaI Arties.
Tie sncien. records a Iceland mention is VAIN
cline end there are found Of the present. dsy buried
fcust,, ScrtRrbrsnA," beneath hs sn!-nizhy
forests which required for their growth far vsrasr
Temperature than the tresut, and which eontsA
Strangely With The s.unied groves nov covering fh
p.s.stuI.
In tie time CT Ovid the 2uIine wa frozen over
EVER Winter. The Tber ws ofisn frozen over. a.
rev cree lay IN Rone for forty dsys- Thssdsnsze.
il tie ytsr CO., marched ais hordes On the hozsa
Dsurte 10 swsb.s and mary kindred examples
oou'd be cited. On the extreme verge Of Siberia
nc. rosu.d ggaote animals. species which 20 issgx
,1as, or ~hoss snslogues found osly ssss tbs
.soyses Az Innsnse quastay d fosss. the RENAME
# that bygoLe prod s;,ess how nssssress the hard
sId how ertle the cline 1ss have bsss. How csns