The New York herald., 1871-11-03

still remaining to II on it's way 10 the Pole IT its
palaway Is s.rewn ~ noating ices the latter can be
C. Ross, IN his Antarctic expedition OF 1912, passed
safely through the Ice belt and Ice Islands OF the
In this country many were anxious that Captain
Hall should test the Bent theory, now popularity
known as that or the "Thermometric Gateways TO
the Poe.n But 1t Is, perhaps better that Captain
Hail should not have attempted 1t. To cross the
ike Sir James .. Ross, fuiiy acaaantea with ice ice
the ice belts around the Souh Poe, at time not
less than iorty-six days-from the 18th OF Decem-
through an ice stream Of about hve hundred miles
In width: but ne was rewarded by finding on the
gss nse q IN dis
covering what lies beyond that Ice belt crossed by
Ross In the Antartic regions, which all navgators
before nlm-Cook, Balleny, and even Wilkes--had
believed and emphatlcally declared to be
an impenefIaole barrier 70 further progress
prejudice, he should have found q steady and
progressive increase OF Ice and cold as
the case, rs Ross sagaclously anticipated The bill
liant anticipations OF Ross were not disappointed,
threw itself as GORDON around the Pole, ne found
an open sea- In which he could sail without difficulty
nousands an OF niles IN Ihe arst year. after emerging
OF ice IN any direction from the masthead, and on
me very next day the gallant explorer deserted VIC
lofia Land, with It's lofty volcanic cones towering 10
the height Of Mount Blanc, and thus restored 10
England the nonor OF the discovery OF the southern
most known land, which had been nooly won by the
intrepid Bcllingbausen aud Ior more tnan twenty
years retained by Russia.n
Tncrc eau DC little doubt f such persevering and
skiuui sailor as Ross could now take steam vessel
armed with circular ice saw AT her prov into The
sea between Spitzberaen and Nova Zeinbla where IL
y penetrated by the Cult Stream with It's potential
lnermic properties that q brilliant geographical
discovery would crown the experiment. the Ice
belt once broken through the steamer would hays
but llttie dlculty in making her seaway 10 the high
est latiIude reached by Parry foot and the sight
oil the poie itsel reconpense the explorer IL isra
reinarkaDla coincidence, confirming the reports OF
the North German expedition, that Ross and Kane,
at dinerent times and at the Earth antipodes OBJ.
ing with whaes''
Strange as al these facts are in connection with
sea oi warmer water around tie Pole, they are
ensly understood when the true volumes OF the
suli stream ana Kurr Seiyo (Which passes through
Bchring strait are known
The latter was found by Commodore Rodgers NOV
ing rhpuD north several hundred miles above Behr-
lnRs sHats, having passed through that marine
gorge NJ stream as large as that OF the Gulf stream
,ne tiofua Pass. The size OF the latter the Florida
rass cir John Herscne estimated at 900 times the
sHe OF the MISSISSIPPI River at New Orleans. The
notion has long prevailed that the current which
passes out through the Forida Pass to
Tue portion OF the great equatorial current which
passes INTO the Gun OF Mexico between the West
INDIAN Islands and the peninsula OF Yucatan. But
VIC nave seen already how the Antilles meet aud
resist the equatorial current and especially now
ccat-ssapcd oppogitoI bAe hpmenly Larliels