Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-02-15

in mind that the oceans form but thin film
of water in comparison with the diameter
and tho mass oil the globes and that they
are spread over its sttrface in the most deli
cate equilibrium. As the water in a level,
shallow platter rushes to ONE side and
overfiows when the platter is tilted in the
slightest degree, SO a displacement of but
mile or two in the position of the earth's
centre of gravity is sufficient to draw the
waters of the sea after it, southwark or
northward, as the case may be, In ah over
whelming "cyclicel delage"
1t now remains for US to think of the
next great deluge, that of NJ. Adhemar, if
we may name it after the scientific proph.
ct who predicts it. This deluge is not to
occur, indeed, until about A. D. 5000,
and the prospect Of it will hardly affect
real estate at present. Still, the causes
which are to produce second deluge not
less general than that of Noah, are even
northern polar cupola OF ice increases,
and NJ. Adhemar suggests that astrono-
mers should look for the shadow of its
gigantic outline upon the moon, during
favoring lunar eclipses, The southern ice
diminishes The waters now massed upon
the south of the equator begin gradually
to transport themselves to the north. The
shores of the northern continents are
gradually submerged; while In the south
the waters recede and diminish. Through
thousands of years these changes go on
slowly, as geologists note them at the
present day. But, at last, the northern
glacier having reached its greatest extern
sion, and the southern its minimum, the
latter becomes sufficiently loosened from
the grip of its icy bands by the accunhu-
1x4a @f TO
denly "The instant of its breaking up,"
says Mr.. Walker, from whose resume of
the subject we quote, sounds the knell
os universal cataclysm. As soon as the
fragments of the great southern ice-moun-
tains are separated into floating icebergs,
drifting at the mercy of the waves, the
attraction of the northern glacial mass
becomes predominant, and the center of
gravity of the globe, suddenly traversing
the plane of the equator, passes into the
Northern Hemisphere, dragging after it,
in mighty torrent, almost the total mass
of waters whose velocity creates hurri-
cane, accompanied probably by lightning,
thunder, terrific earthquakes, and volcanic
eruptions voming forth flames and stones
thousands of feet high" A new distribu-
tion of the land and sea takes place. Poly
nesia becomes new archipelago; Aus
tralia is Joined to New Guinea; and even
Wilkes mythic Anthracite Continent
might appear above the receding waters
The Southern Ocean, rushing down upon
the Northern Hemisphere, will strip the
forests from their beds and bury them in
vast strata for the coal-mines of the future.
Nearly all life upon the north of the
equator will be destroyed, unless science
shall have enabled us, by employing bal
looms, or by embarking in transports yet
more capacious than Noah's ark, to es-
cape overwhelming in the sudden torrent
of the oceans "a few tribes of families"
says Mr.. Walker, Escaping to the highest
table-lands and mountain-ranges Of the
earth, may survive-only to fall back al
most Immediately into a state of torpid
barbarism ''-Appleton's Journal.