The New York herald., 1871-11-03

tropics Its course is sadly attested by the hinge
icebergs upon which perhaps man vessels. never
often 80 numerous In noatiDg clusters as 20 deiy
computation. Captain Beecily saw small one fall
weight. The Great western, in Is4I. in her trans.
atlantic trip. met 800 icebergs sir John Ross saw
cep one s compnte1 10 Weigh SIS toms
A Danish voyagcr saw one measuring 900, 0oo, 900
cubic feet Sir ,. e. Ross met with some or these
floating mountains twice As large as this; and IN
Davis Strait where there Is deep water, icebergs
have been met having an area OF SIX square miles
The hyperborean current which bears these mon.
srers on Its bosom has formed by the deposit from
Their dissolution, the Grand Banss Of Ncwfound.
The single dri.t OF ice which bore on its Atcan
shoulders the English ship Resolute, abandoned oy
Captain kelett, and cast 10 twelve hundred miles 10
the south, was computed tn be ~ least three hun
dred Thousand square miles IN area aud seven feet
teen billion tons We say tina was a single driit
through Davis Straits only one OF the avenues Of
inns current from the Pole and only fractional part
what mighty and majestic now OF hot waters
must take place nom the equator toward tns poles
10 wetge and 10 bear down To low iantudes such
terrlnc masses easily piston the fire en-
Ibe unhesliating Inference drawn from such rea.
sonings by those who accepted the narrative OF Dr.
kane and The reasoning OF Captain Bent was that
the proper route for reaching the Pole thu track
OF the Gull Stream Into the Polar Basin.
EXTENSION OF THE GULF STREAM.
The more recent Investigations OF the swedish and
German explorers have fully borne out the wisdom
OF TINS suggestion. They 20 10 show that the Polar
BASIN is hied with water. Dr. Won Freelen who
has gwen such admirable account OF the ffst
German North Polar Expedition OF 1863, says:-'.I
Will slate tnat the great depths Of The north OF
Sptzbergen more than 1000 fathoms), the strong
and regular current there and the entire absence
OF lceUergs or glaciers appear To me TO I've The indl
cations OF the non 1.existeuce OF Continent or
greiier ISLANDS In tue Arctic Sea-
But the latest expeditions have thrown great light
upon Tie extension OF the Gull stream In o north
cry and easteriy direction, between Nova ZembIa
hnn spitzperSen, ana have revealed its existence
velocity and force In these very hIgh latitudcs.
As hign a. "a degrees north koldewey observed
tue sea striped blue and green the former known
o ne me cooT oi the Guif stream the latter of the
ROAR stream. According TO Lamont, 10 the north
anu east ol the ihousaad Isles latitude II nortul
sly uousand iniies IRON rs fountain In the Gulf or
Mexico MS party observed tile GulG stream meet
,he ROAR stream with It's larse ice.driits wnch
were rapidly dissolved Dr. Bessels who twice
crossed The great sea between Spitzberaen and
Nova Iemba, in the steamer Albert, during huoust
1909, observed every four hours, and .ln the very
track whete The Gulf stream might be looked nm
immediately cast OF Bear Island (T6 north attudr,
iue temperature OF the sea was 52.4 degrees Fahren.
neit-a lact ~ which the extension OF lne guIf
stream INTO these regions Is clearly provedr
Temporarily conquered or diverted N its struQ.
gles Win the Polar Stream, We afterwards detect IL
10 reach them NJ u submarine current
served dIfus'on o drlil wood high up in the Arctic
Ocean.
ID; ,are Swedish expedition found especially