Litchfield enquirer., 1863-07-02
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NEW YORK, June 22d, 1863.
 Mn. EDITOR :-Hal ha! ha !-pray, excuse me but-hai hal ha !-really, Mir. Editor, you have set of the most extraordinary cor respondents hal hal hal-zthe most sleepy headed fellows: We'll: say nothing. But this soiH say, that when travel, l keep my eyes and ears wide open. Yes, sir! make 1t a point to see and hear what is going on. But your correspondents-well: l say noth- ing. But this Win say 1: One goes to Phil adelphia aud sleeps all the way in the cars. Another goes to Troy, and sleeps all the way in the boat and. finding that not sufficient. he sleeps all the way back again. And, final ly, Mr. Pringle or Jingle, or some such name, goes to Litch6eld. and he, too, snores it all through. We'll: I say nothing. But this I ssiafsay that is one way of travelling Now, I once took a journey, which however was so long that will not undertake to describe it., but I'll tell you what saw when got tbere If you choose, you may fancy that l also slept all the &ay-only, I didn't. If had, I shouldn't havo walked in hurry, for it was three months voyage. Be that as it may. I have promised to tell you,
 WHAT SAW WHEN I GOT THERE.
 If you take map of the northern regions of our globe. which map includes our globes entire circuit north of the 60th degree of lati- tude--the map being projected on scale of five degrees to the inch--you mny find, or inn agine ring faintly traced around, and on all sides equidistant from the point 90 2 ]; which ring is the exact size of an American quarter dollar. That point 90 . is the centresof the ring-the centre of the map-and the centte of the globes surface at its northerLmost ex tremity. Three continents Europe Asia and America are grouped around the ring sepa- rated from it indeed, yet surrounding it.; their frost-bound barriers approaching it in irregular lines as nearly as circumstances permit. The ring looks small on map of the scale indca- ted but it contains an area of no less than ninety thousand square miles. Itis therefore larger than England and Scotland combined j; and. like them, it is an island.
 < Whata cold island it must e!. you say. Not at all. The 18th parallel of latitude is the line of maximum cold in the northern hemisphere: and, inasmuch as. owing to the fattening of the globe at the poles. cold de- creases north of that line faster than it de- decreases south of it, in the ratio of fifteen to two. the average temperature of the island is \ 65 2 of Farenheit for the. year round. with an extreme variation of 20 ], ---that is, S4 h5o as minimum and es 75s as q maximum. In other words, the very finest climate on the face of the earth. Fogs are unknown; as are also cloudy days, except in case of rain. The num- Der of rainy days n . year, according to rec ord kept for thirty-six successive years, was just twenty six which is one every fortnight: while the showers of rain for the same period were ssventy-eighs annually which is three in fortnight By reason of the Hattening of the earth at the poles-- which cannot be too
 
 often mentioned the days and nights are of q uniform length the year round. As to meteor lology, therefore, the matter could not be bet ter ordered -eyen in France.
 As has already been intimated, the outline |of the island is perfect circle. The face of the country is agreeably diversified by hill and dale, field and forest. river and lake and the coast is indented by inDumerable bays, but not one of the latter is more than q mile in depth |or breadth hance, the integrity of the circle |is not impaired. An ipdentation Of one mile lin periphery of thousand miles from an elevation that commands viewsof the whole |circuit, is IT inappfsciable aa the notches in 2 lscol:op skell asa distance of ! hundred feet Tho isls6d abounds with every variety q {tses. shrub snd vegetable avery metal and ninssll ssssy substance for food, both fol nan md besst erery animal excspt the fs.