The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1860-03-03

abnormal elevation Of the northern part
Of one Of the basins. This was the parti
which now constitutes the middle Of
Asia The Caspian sen, and the land
around il, was probably the centre Of the
ancient Asiatic ocean. OF the six
original oceans, i've still exist, though
imperfect ID regard to size and form, and
the land between Western Europe and
Eastern Asia occupies the place Of the
sixth, which has been nearly elevated and
drained Had every basin been raised at
once, it would have produced no derange
nent Of the neighboring circuits; but by
the elevation OF the northern half Of the
circuit, the southern half became q land
locked sen, from which the heated waters
could not escape without overlooking into
the North Pacific from the Bay Of Ben
gal and around the Cape Of Good Hope.
into The South Atlantic. The derange-
inent thus produced gradually caused q
change Of the map from the symetrical
and normal form which II otherwise would
have possessed tO the present actual map:
of the world. This arrangement caused
the sinking Of. the ancient continent Of
South America, and the elevation Of the
present South America in moro eastern
position The continent of Australia also
was oil, or nearly al, overwhelmed by
tho deranged current, and the present
Australia elevated about twenty degrees
further soath, cramped In position,
dwarfed In size and deformed i'm It's pro-
portions. This arrangement took place
gradually in one direction, and still CON
tinues. The tendency has been to sink
the southern hemisphere and elevate the
northern, and also TO deepen the eastern
part Of the Pacific Ocean. To this cause
Is to be attributed the fact that the vol
canoes on the American side 81. the Pacific
Ocean IRE I'LL on the main land, and ON
the Asiatic are on d chain of islands near
the coast. The fact that the lands an
point to the south and are broad at the
north, is explained BY the statement that
the lands which point in o contrary direc.
ton are all sunk except the Antarctic
continent, which is iVestige Of the
ancient normal southern lands The hol-.
lowing ont Of the southwestern side of
South America, Africa and Australia
was explained BY the fact that the PEE
cullaf 1erangement o. tlie currents neces-
sarily produced this effect by crowding
the South Pacific circuit eastward and
sonthwaIel This, In turn, crowded the
Atlantic in the same manner eastward,
and also that part of the Indian ocean
that washes the southwestern shore of
Australia. The peculiar form oil Cape
Horn, which gires it its name, and the
curying of the mountainS Of the cape,
convex, southwest Il produced by an Off
set from Humboldt's current $50 caIled1
Overlooking into the South Atlantic;
while the mountains Of the Cape Of Good
Hope curve in q contrary direction, In
consequence of the oyerflowing Of the In.
gnllus current from the Indian ocean into
the South Atlantic. The speaker said
that the truth Of his theory was proved
By the way in which thousands Of facts
heretofore governed by no known law,
coincide with it, just as fragment of q
broken jar was known to be q part of it
by its regular fitting with the other pieces.
He said there were no facts of physical
geography which were inconsistent with
il, Of could not be explained by it.
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