The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-01-19


down under the influence of gravita
tion; its fragments, borne upon tht
northern seas, rushed violently toward
/ the south. Torn from his bed, tht
acean bore with him the mud which
now forms the diluvium of the north
ern hemisphere. Gigantic streams oi
water, mingled with earth, sand, and
/ pebbles, formed the alluviUms of the
great valleys; erratic boulders were
carried southwark upon the ice, and
scattered all over the northern hemis-
phere, or piled upon theside of noun
tains that they were unable to scale,
and left there for the corner-stones, as
it were, of geological theories. A
large part of the northern forests we're
torn up and borne away upon the
food, to be deposited in basins, and
to become the coal beds of the present
epoch. The waters of the deluge
stripped the forest shores of Asiatic
Russia, Nova Zembla, Lapland, Nor
way, and Denmark, pouring the floral
spoil into the then estuary, which is
now the North Sea, and distributing
the fuel of the future in the great coal
basins of the Firth of Forth, in Scot
land, and In those of SOmersetshire
and Gloucestershire in England. This
view is confirmed in the opinion of Mr..
Walker, by the fact that Sweden, Nor
way, and Denmark, being probably
without deposit basins at the coal pc
riod for the reception of the North Po-
lar timber-rush, have not received an
ounce of vegetable fuel, although
these countries were within hail, as it
were, of the Britain of the coal period.
We're coal a deposit of vegetable
growth in stu, We should expect to
find its richest deposits in the eastern
and other parts Of the world where
growth is the most luxuriant. Yet in
these countries no coal is found.
Such was the last Cyclical deluge,
which was no other than the food OF
Noah. It's date is variously estimated
at from two to three thousand years b.
@. The estimate of NJ. Adhemar puts
it at two thousand three hundred and
thirty years B. c., date which he
considers to be not very far from the
truth. As that deluge was named from
Noah, SO the future delq8e-if 1t
should "come to time''-may take its
name from Adhemar, who first pre-
dieted It. According to him this del
uge will rush in a contrary direction to
the last. g. from south to north !;
and it viii repeat the phenomena of
the deluge which occurred ten thOus-
and five hundred years before that of
Noah. Adhemar's deluge is to occur,
unless unforeseen physical agencies
shall accelerate or retard it, about SIX
thousand three hundred years from
the present time. Year by year, CEN
tury by century, the cold In our hem
isphere slowly increases as the North
Pole is turned more and more away
from the sun. That monster glacier,
the ice-eap of the North Polar region,
is slowly increasing in size, while the
southern ice is slowly diminishing.
The oceans, which are now accumula-
ted mainly south of the Equator, are,
in consequence of the increased 9ttrac-
tion at the North, being drawn gradu-
ally across the equatorial line, thus
producing an emergence Of island con-
tinents in the southern, and an appar-
ent subsidence of the land in the
northern hemisphere. Thus 1T has
long been observed that the sea is re-
ceding from the whole southern coast
line of Australia Lowlands, forests,
fields and shores, are submerged, as
we see in the north. All these changes
go on very gradually as long as the ice
mountains remain unbrOken. But at
last the hour arrives WAsp this regular
and measured movement gives Hlace to
a sudden and vast perturbation of equi-
ibrium. The Boreal, or northern
eiscier, having reached its maximum
'ARsion, and the Austral or southern
.xt. It's minimum, the lattsT be-
,laciel, >R5stsntiy loosePed from the
ZONES sIl - chains by the heat of the
rip of it's IL. Wy breaks Ep as the
un and suddo ~Ske up in ths time
northern glacier b4 of its dissolu-
If Noah. The instan. Of 3 universal
ion will sound the kneh fragments
,ataclysm. As soon as the ~dRtsins
If the great southern ice M SSgin
are shattered into icebergs, and Il
20 move away faom the pole, the a
traction of the northern glacial mass
will become predominant. As shght
tipping of a shallow vessel filled with
water viii pour its entire contents to
one side, SO the shifting, howerer
,Iiqht, of the earth's centre of gravity |
,oIard the northrn hemisphere Will
Iraq after it, in q mighty torrent,
Almost the total mass OF the waters.
Their veIoc ity viii create a hurricane,
probably by lightning,
TERM &c earthquakes, and vol
,anic eruptions. The forests o! the
southern hennisp. here will be stripped
irou the land and hurled INTO new
GOAL beds. The c. 1untless lslanos OF
she Pacific will arise from the sea- ana
become the mountain tops OF q , new
continent, to be covere d with eterIi1I t1Ii1iI
SHOWS" until the next c VclIcal qeln8e
shall submerge them. Inc noili1ii lI-i
Archipelago Will become another FasI
plateau of land, and its his her reglo.s
viii be found as full of mari ue remains
as those of the north are now observed
10 be. Australia viii be joined to New
Guinea, and thus acquire new eastern
seaboard one thousand two hundred
miles long, between which and the
present Australian coast will be wide
valley. Unknown lands will emerge
from the abyss of the southern oceans. |
Even the Antarctic continent, which
Captain Wilkes claimed to have found
in 1912, may then become q reality
On the other hand, the oceans will
be suddenly poured across the Equator,
if the present speculation be correct,
and submerge the principal seats Of
modern civilization. The northern
hemisphere viii become oceanic, as the
southern will be again made habitable
as before the food of Noah. Mr..
Walker thinks that the same fate must
happen to man as IL that flood, except
in the case of a few tribes, who may
escape to the highest table lands and
ountain ranges, upon which they
may survive, only TO fall, as the Pacific
Islanders have done, into state of
gloomy barbarism.
In this dark picture, however, the
theorist has forgotten to make allow
ance for the power Of science, and for
the appliances Of safety which man has
discovered. Where Noah had recourse
10 an ark we shall be able, if worst
comes to worst, to use balloons as well