The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-05-30
GFrom Galingani's Messenger, Dec. 25.l
DANGER OF ANOTHER DELUGE.
The Northern Hemisphere to be Submerged, and 9 Ne,
World from The South.

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We have had occasion to peruse a remarka-
BILE work just Published, entitled, "Courainis ct
Revolutions de PAtmosphere ct de la Mer,"
by Lieut.. Julien, a distinguished officer in the
French Navy. The greater part of the book is
devoted to a general description of Lieutenant
Maury's splendid theory of currents and
winds, by which he explains the recurrence of
storms and other meteorological phenomena;
but what has chiefly attracted our attention is
a new theory on the inevitable periodical re-
turn of a cataclysm similar to hat known as
the Universal Deluge, a subject which the au-
thor treats with a singular lucidity, and of
whichwe will here endeavor to give an outline /:
The author starts from certain facts, some
of which are generally known, viz: i. That
the isothermal lines Zines where the same de-
gree of warmth Is observed on our globe) of
the highest temperature are equally distrib-
uted between the Northern and Southern hem
lispheres, the space they occupy in the former
being about the double of that which they oc-
cupy south of the equator, so that the southern
hemisphere is considerably colder, especially
towards the pole, than the northern one. 2.
That the accumulation of ice at the antarctic
pole Is much more considerable than at the
northern. 3. That the earth performs the
shortest portion of its revolution, viz that
nearest to the perhelion, more rapidly
than the other, and at that period of the
year which comprises the autumn and win
ter of the northern hemisphere. Hence it
follows that the winter of the latter is shorter
Cby about eight days. than that of the south
ern hemisphere; and it is during this long win.
ter, when the earth is farthest from the sun,
that the solar rays must lose in strength what
they gain in duration. To this cause of dimi;
mutton of temperature must be added the loss
of caloric by radiation, and it will then be easy
to perceive the reason of the difference of tenn
perature between the two hemispheres. Obser.
walton, moreover, has shown that the quaint.
ty of %caloric lost at the south pole in the
course of a year is equal to the surplus alb
sorbed at the north pole.
Now let us, with the author, mentally repre-.
sent to ourselves the earth at the moment OF
its creation, when its whole surface was cover
ed with its geometrical centre. From that
moment its revolution around the sun com.
menced, and all those causes which have led
to the equality of temperature between the
two hemispheres began to operate. In the
course of a few centuries the ice at the South
pole became in consequence heavier than that
accumulated at the North pole, and the centre
of gravity was displaced southwards; mathe
maticians, in fact, state the distance between
the latter and the geometrical centre to be
about 100 metres. Under these circumstan.
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do but flow southwark, leaving all the CONT.
nent we are SO familiar with uncovered? Here
NJ. Julien observes that all the regions of the
southern hemisphere bear unmistakable re.
marks of submersion; that America, Africa
and India and in points, all turned towards the
south pole; that the islands of the southern re
gions have the appearance of the submits Of
mountain ranges, and that Lieut.. Maury'
soundings show that the coasts on that side
descend abruptly into the sea. He further
states the curious fact that in going from the
north to the south pole, at every parallel the
ratio of the extent of land to that of the sea
diminishes regularly and progressively.
Let US now take into consideration the phe
nomenon called the Procession of the Equi
noxes, in virtue of which the first point O.
Aries =recedes upon the elliptic by about fifty
seconds in the year. This gradually causes
complete change in the seasons; and counting
from any given time, there must elapse at leas
q, 900 before the seasons can return at pre-
cisely the same periods of the year. 1t ha
been ascertained that up to the year 1248 O
the Christian Era, a year in which the frs
day of winter precisely conceded with thu
earth's passage through its perhelion, the tenn
perature of the southern hemisphere had beer
in constant course of diminution. It is more
over clear that after a lapse of 10000 year
the seasons on our globe mus be exactly re
versed. Hence about 10,5oo years before tn,
yer 1910, or II, 1000 years before our presen
time, it was the north pole and not its oppo
site one which was in it's maximum of refrig
Grafton; our present continents were then sub
merged, according to tie Mosaic tradition o
the Deluge, and there were continents un
known to us in the southern hemisphere
And again, by the same astronomical and nat
ural laws, 10000 years after the last cataclysm
a new one will occur, which will again sub
merge the northern hemisphere, and allow
new world to emerge from the ocean in II
southern sea. 1r-Nf.1-D
Such is the theory of NJ. Julien-a theory, W
may add, WEIGH is in perfect accordance with
in the sphere of our actual knowledge.