Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-04-05
MORNINGLEADER
- AIl.PerrndInr FIEId.

Water penetrates into everything save met
ala and even into some Of these, especially
iron aud lead. Nearly all the earths, flint
lime, and clay, are pervaded by its influences.
All soils, even the hardest contain water in
abundance; a few having less than one
eleventh, some being nearly halt water
r pehetFates every rock, tili sandstone be-
comes so full OF IL that one or two million
gallons % water can be pumped daily from a
single W6ll; while chalk IS still fuller Of wa.
Ter. he microscope has shown that water is
even contained IL soma Of the primary rocks,
quartz holding Il in such quantities that
the cavities are large enough to be seen by
the naked eye, and il is probable that mica,
islspar, aud quartz, though fFst involved b.
heat have been dissolved by water, and laid
down In beds.
OF the human frame, water forms 50 large
q component part that the most thoroughly
smoke-dried old croue that ever ran the risk
Of being burned for q witch, would shrink
very materially II the water we're distracted
from her Withered frame. A gentleman ofeom-
iortabledimensions ifsubmitted to dry distilla-
ton, would be transformed intoa respectfully
dressed mummy; the famous Daniel Lam
bgFt, under this process would have dwind-
led 70 the weight OF a small young gentle
man in KnickbOckers. A ton Of grass rep
fesents two hundred weight Of hay, and this
when deprived Of the remaining radical
moisture, sinks to a still smaller figure; while
some plants and fruits, such as the water
melon, are amost entirely composed Of
water. ~
And whether it is launched the soft mud
.,Ft ~, ,.,f,.r. srra, 1tr4rr aaefrt,offcr ,v-ar
the labors Of man, or il is boiled in the geys-
sr; whether It thunders down the cataract or
stagnates in the torpid jungle; Il is the same
invaluable mysterious agent wearing down
the old and building up the new; refreshing
the worn-out soil with vitaliEing matter, and
changing the sandy waste or barren heath
into land smiling with plenty. The great
Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, and the vast
caverns of the Adelsberg the labyrinth OF
Crete, aud the wonders OF the Peak, are alike
due to the action OF water upon limestone.-
The vast beds Of egg-stones (oolite) were
formed by some nameless shallow quiet ses
rolling q regular coating Of lime round myr-
iadsof small nuclei, some Tiny shell or skel-
etou; the beautiful deposits in the hot springs
Of Iceland are owing 10 the silica in the wa
ter Nature has always plenty Of the mate
rial on handi the SEA contains ia solution
besides as much Epson salts as would physiC
all the Inhabitants Of earth-fve hundred
millions OF tons Of hint
So thoroughly does water enter into all
the doings OF this sublunary sphere, that we
6nd i alike IN the icy winds that sweep over
the Artie regions, and in the hot Simeon
The east wind, which proverbially dries up
/ the skin, and makes horses coat stare, con-
tains its due proportion o. moisture just as
air does after rain in fact, almost immedi-
ately after parting with its water, The tenn
perature of the atmosphere arises, and a part
OF the water is reabsorbed. But the air Is
not merely modified by the water in it. Thus
while the shores of Labrador lie buried 10
ice and fog, the coast Of England aud Ire
land, in the same latitude under the vitalizine
warmth Of the Gulf stream, smile in peren.
NAL verdure.
I q Even eongealed into ice, water is OF such
incslculable service, that without it the ma
! GhineFy Of the gleben must come to stand.
l-stilk The uar1eT who behOlds the huge ice
beres bearing down the Atlantic andal0om.
ing through "a. palpable drkness OF mid
night, oHthetratelsr who surveys the savage
an fantastic desolatiOn of the Polar realms
may wonder what purpose they can serve
They are the checks Nature has placed upo1
the oVer-vibration of the pendulum; they
are The hood-gates, the breaking Of every.
thing that now inhabits the earth
If the movement of upheaval now going
on at Cape Nerth sh3uld extend to Spitz
bergen and the lands around the Pole-s
triiing process compared with the grea
cenYulsions that must have repeatedly
happened = the accumulations Of ice il
these regions would soon render the nortl
of Europe uninhabitable Where the en-
4 gine-driFer now glides with the steady
smoothness of planetary motion the
laundering fight of tie locomotive, the ict
stream and the snow-swollen cataract Woult
alone meet the eye; where the r.ng of th
hammer and Whirl Of the spindle tell Q
mans daily toll, would be heard only th
fail Of the avalanche and the grinding of ice
Hergs. But few short years, and the POla
bear and the walrus, the whale and the pen
gum, would again be seen in the German
Ocean and st. Georges Channel; and tn
fertile ieldsoi England would again lie burie
beneath the ciayr6oOd and the glacial drift
and The lowest hills would be covered wit
eternal SHOWS.
Or, were It to sink again by the prOces
which has borne down tracts, equally large
to the bottom of the ocean, leaving q scarcel
appreciable inequality on the surface Of th
globe, man, with all his traditions, arts an
sciences, would disappear from the scene, an
his place wOuld be filed by some of the hug
forms which tell of mighty past in languag
that cannot bedispuIed. For time, indees
famed by the cool breezes from the Atlanti,
the temperate regions might be endurable b
those who can bear the ferceness Of trop
cal hest. But ere long this possibility woul
ceas.; nay, if this NOT very improbabl
change happened, the giant iguanodon migl
rsappear on the world, and the fsh-lizar
again be the sanguinary tyrant Of the ocea
J and the estuary; again the pterodactyl
! might oleave with its dusky wings the dar
and poisonous air Of the tree-ben groves
: and the turtle might once more spawn h
: eggs aWhere the wRlrus now sleeps and Il
/ seal has drilted on the ice foe.
Gymnastics for the Eyes.
DR.. Holland is now writing, inthe Sprin