The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-08-18


everything. Our own Long Branch wants
trees but who ever misses them when the
hotels and the cottages are full2 Tennyson
might look down from the English cliffs and
mutter:-
Break, break break,
On thy cold gray stones, o seal
And would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise In mo.
But Mr. Murray and Mr. Yates have had no
such restraint upon them as that which the
poet implies. As result the holiday seeker
at Coney Island or Rockaway, as well as the
cottager at Newport or Long Branch, can COM
pare his lot with the Englishman and
Frenchman by taking his HERALD as
well as his tumble in the surf The graces of
Fashion and her fettered votaries at Saratoga
have been depicted in all their repose or aban-
don, and the cooling, curative waters have
been descanted on for the benefit of those who
do not drink them. To turn from tho vivid
actually of Saratoga to the quaint old
fashioned rustiness in life around Bedford
Springs, whose fortunes have waned in dozen
years, is as instructive as it is interesting TO
take the delicately graphic picture of Newport
as it is and lay it beside the presentment of
rough-and-ready Coney Island Is to compare
the opposite poles of the Atlantic Summer
world among the breakers. Il is very stately
and very quiet Vs. very rollicking and very
noisy. The Pilgrims have lett their grim
traces behind them at Newport, but the merry
spirit of the old Knickerbockers who baptized
Konyn Eylandt two hundred years ago in Hol-
land schnapps has survived in spite of the cor
ruption of the name. Where the placid, pei
lucid waters of Lake George lie embosomed
in the hills that saw the long border fights be-
tween the English, French, Indians and Ameri-
cans our correspondents have been prompt to
tell us how the hills, the lake, the
hotels and the guests look at present,
and with what gift Of imagination the inhabi-
tants endeavor to enhance the beauties of
nature. The grand panorama from the sum-
init of the Catskill Mountains has been rolled
out, showing the looming grandeurs of the
peaks and the rich green and gold Of the val
ley, with its broad silver band where the Hud-
son sweeps to the sea- From the White
Mountains to the White Sulphur Springs the
story has been told of how Nature, in all her
moods, calls in the present tense to mon and
women that they may become rejuvenated in
her embrace. To tell the whole truth, how
ever, it was necessary to say how far people
enjoyed it; what obstacles of prosaic baggage
masters, crawling trains, badly kept or over
priced hotels, were placed in their way, from
Bedford Springs, with its deserted hotol Office,
to the curmudgeons who put fences round
Niagara on the American side of the Falls.
To all these the letters of Louise Muhlbach,
spicy, gossipy and historically anecdotic,
will come in pleasant contrast. Our German
fellow citizens are invited to the feast in their
native tongue, and the English-speaking
reader will find them in translated form as
attractive and picturesque as in the original
lengcr Expedition-A Submarine Sal
hara.
The Challenger, which carries the great
circumnavigating expedition, though wearing
warlike name, is doing q splendid service
for peaceful science. The latest intelligence
of her submarine explorations tells wonder
full and instructive tale of the floor of the
North Atlantic. It appears that this dark and
long unfathomed territory, which, however,
cannot be said to bear In its caves
Full many gem Of purest ray serene,
is divided off into its own districts as distinctly
marked from each other as the various geo.
graphical districts on the earth's surface
Among these deep sea tracks, that Of the globe
gerina mud is the most extensive and COM
monty met with, and it is frequently found
that when the dredge hauls up the specimen
Of this ooze it contains as much as ninety-five
per cent of the skeletons of single species
of globegerina. But the lately reported re-
searches of the Challenger establish the
existence Of peculiar and immense subma-
rine zone of ''red clay" the distinctive fea-
lures of which are that it refuses to effervescs
with the acids by which it is tested, and also,
with the exception Of the fewest skeletons of
foraminifera, is ifeless Running from the
Canary Islands to the West Indies this SUBJ
oceanic province extends one thousand
nine hundred miles, and covers the
sea floor from st. Thomas nearly all the way
to the Bermudas ''The nature and source of
this deposit and the causes of its peculiar
distribution in the deeper parts of the ocean"
says Professor Wyville Thomson, in his latest
letter, ''are, therefore, questions of the
highest interest" but he has not yet published
any solution of the phenomenon. At first
sight it might seem most probable that this
''red clay" deposit, sheeting, as it does, so
large an area of the sea bed, was due to the
ourrent-drifted sediment emptied by the
Amazon, the Orinoco, the Mississippi and also
the West African rivers into the basin of the
North Atlantic The floods of the Amazon
discoloring the sea water near its mouth, its
muddy water has been distinguished by