Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-05-27

the Narrows of Bemini its tempera-
ture Is 500. But after it has run over
a thousand miles TO the north 1t still
retains its tropical heat. When her
Britannia majestey sship, The Nile, in
May, 1861 sailed from the harbor of
Halifax for Bermuda, under Admiral
Sir Alexander Milne, that officer, as
he entered the Gulf Stream, found the
water at the stern of his vessel az n
temperature of 4O0, while before her
bows the thermometer in the Stream
stood at 700. The heat actually set free
in "A winters day by the Gulf Stream
is enough to Warm up the whole col
umn of atmosphere resting upon
France and the British Isles from the
freezing-point to summer heat. 1t
would be easy to show that the ther-
ma! treasures borne on its bosom to
he North Atlau ic would be TO use
the words of another) sufficient il
utilized, to keep in constant blast a
cyclopean furnace capable of sending
forth stream of molten iron as large
in volume as the discharge OF the
mightiest river.n When the south
west winds take up the vesicles of va.
por in which these treasures are stored,
| and watt them to England, the amount
of latent heat set free by precipitation
| overhead in one day Is computed TO
| equal that created by the combustion
| of all the coal consumed in the island
/ annually If no more heat was receiV-
ed than Is due to the position of the
islands in respect of latitude, the mean
winter temperature of SHETLAND
would be only 30, and that of London
17o. According TO the observations of
the Scottish Meteorological Society,
however, the mean winter temperature
of these places are respectively 39' and
37o-Shetland being thus benefited
800 and London 20o "In Iceland and
on the Norwegian coast" we learn
from the same high authority, the
increase of heat thus accruing is very
much greater 70 all such p. aces,
along, the path of the Calf Stream,
even within the arctic circle, the vast
current may be regarded as both re-
pository and dispenser of the sun &
warmth giuen out in summer, and OF
the genial and vitaliZing forces which
clothe equatorial lands with sea o.
foliage. SO true is this that several Of
the isochimenals, or lines of equal t0in
ter temperature, are bent and carried
. by the Gulf Stream, sixteen hundred
miles northward of their momal posi-
ton This detection of isochimenal
in the northern hemisphere is due t
the fact that the Stream makes 1T
, warmth felt most sensibly in January
, just as the hyperborean How from tn
f Antarctic Ocean is coldest i'll July de
| tlecting the isothermals from thel
normal position the most in that montl
I, This peculiar distribution of the winte
4 climate of the British Isles, as it be
. comes known, is brought into requisi
: tion by the skillful physician in tn
4 treatment of diseases. The patien
o needing a milder air is no longer sen
to the southwark, unless directed 9TH
tOest end of the island and the weal
constitution recupcrates almost as raI
idly at Shetland, or on the west coas
d of Scotland, as in any part OF Englano
q except from the Isle of Wight west
O ward around the Cornish Peninsula
= To speak OF the early productions
: the soil here is almost unnecessary
: At Penzance, in Cornwall, the equabl
i. character of the English climate
q most strikingly developed. Penzant
I. is the garden Of the English veSetab
{. markets. Green peas and early pot;
20 toes spring out of the ground in Eel
r. ruary, and are on the table in Ma.
;, and every variety of similar veget'
/ BILE growth mt these early dates. ire
N ana plautS, lnulgtlfOuS Ohiy W -
e) tropics, often remain in the ground O
$, winter without injury. Oranges, len
is ons, myrtles, camelliOs, magnolias, u
n Mexican ngave, require no protecti,,
- from frost. SO that Humboldt spoil
t. of it as 1.-The Montpelier of the North
ne But the time and space would fail
It, to .accumulate the evidences OF q
OF | thermal forces and the balnGy infiue
oil ces which demonstrate the eXisten
to and climaticagency of the Gulf Streal
It, 1t clothes Ireland with her robe
is emerald,n and England and Weste
mt Scotland with verdure. If from
n smoky waters the fog rises to hide t
en- rays of the sun, it does tol Englal
nd what the sun in that latitude can n
do. 1t fructifies her soil tempers j
ly skies it puts renewed vigor into I
lie arms of her brawny mechanics, a
le- gives the bloom to her maiden's cheel
TO The Icelander also rejoices in its pre-
ng unity. And the poor Norwegian,
'as the North Cape itself in midwint
I'D eXults in the fact that his harbors I
all kept open and his shores deliver
an from the severe tyrany of the Err
he King.-From 1.-THE Hot Current
of the Atlantic" 10y PROF. II. B. MAUI
be- in HdTper's Magazine for JUnc.
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