Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-05-03

ed as those of the guilt stream on the coast
of Florida, and that its influence in modi-
fying the climates of the northwest coast
is not less remarkable. It's softening infu-
enee is felt along our North Pacific shores |
to such an extent that; to use che naViga- |
tors own words, issVessels trading to Petr0- |
pauloVski Con the Asiatic side), when be-
coming unwieldy from accommodations of
fee on their hulls and rigging, run over to
aihiger latitude on the American coast, and
thaw out, in the same manner that vessels
frozen)upi on our own coast retreat again
into the gulf stream until favored by an
easterlVo wind.o 1i8t hnB 10000 30 8sns-
This concurrent testimony, were il not
corfobofated by thousands of, witnesses as
to the fnildness of the temperature OF, the
northwest coast, should set at rest the IA
bles of a fFigid climate there; and, what ia
equally satisfactory they divest the subject
of vulgar mystery in explaining the causes
by the simplest laws of nature. The ex-
perience of. the pfesentwriter on the north
west coast and the interior sof British CO.
lumbia, added to the evidence of others
who know the extreme North Pacific, leads
to but one conclusion4ottat whatever OBJ
lection may be raised against the final ac-
4 quisitioh of Russian America, as regards its
value, material or political, there are no
! grounds for rejecting it on the score of an
1 ihhospitable @climate.i AS regards the
northern. coast, at Behring's Straits and
Z around on the Arctic shore, there can be
: no question as to the severity of the win
J teri F1Bdt it is not presumed that any con-
! tingeney could arise which would call for
a settlement there. The fisheries. fur
trade and general course of commerce, are
to the southwark, east of the sea0f KANT
schatka, in the great bend Of the ocean ly-
ing between the eastern coast and the pen
insula, thencet to China and India. y514ch
NECESSITY OF. AN ExPLoRING EXPEDITION
rzr,rN q rrcrNfN
| :, There is a speedy and effectual way ,ei
! solving these .yexed, questions of climate
/ aud the general value Of Russian, America
4 Our Government hould without delay dis
( patch q steam, revenue cutter from Sar
/ Francisco for the special service this sum
-mer in exploring that portion OF the coast
which half 2 century OF experience has
taught:the Russians is available for generr
al commercial purposes. Such a vessel, i
dispatched, at once by telegraph-and cnt
/ or two might now be mentioned as wei
calculated for the trip--Would reach Sitk;
/ say by the middle of Mays and quite il
/ time for the breaking up, of the northern
| winter, and the opening of the inlets ant
| rivers Of the far north. At Sitka the loca
authorities would supply pilots and guide
| who have passed their lives in thos
| regions, and e the voyage of exploration
| could be completed, for all practical pur
poses. by October. The steamer r.woul
well known mines, especially at Kedia
| Island. She could visit any or all of th
company's9 posts or trading stations, G
| which, as has already, been stated, there ar
thirty-eight, and ascertain, from actual oh
servation and accounts taken on the spo
the whole story in time for the meeting {
Congress next winter. Such flying eS
pedition, of course, conld not be expecte
to navigate any great distance up the Ky
ohEak or other, large rivers, or effect an
detailed, exploration of the, interior; bu
with an active and wide awake little corr
of the, proper men, untFammelIed by, re
back more live, information on all impo
tant points than could be obtained by yea
of fumbling among the accounts of anciel
nayigators and musty books of trayel.-1
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