The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-01-24


+ subject to the law of inverse ratio
} OF the square OF the distance from tht
surface, but the atmosphere itself fol
r lowed the same invariable rule. Thus
whilst we know that water boils at the
level Of the sea at 2l2' Fahrenheit. II
readily vaporizes at 1852 on the Peak
OF Teneritfe. only $1,000 feet above
that level. This, we know, Is owing
to the weight of
THE SUPERINTENDENT ATMOSPHERE,
There being heavier burden at the
surface than at any hight above it,
. The rate Of decrease in weight abort
the surface Is perfectly regular. being
one degree for every 500 feet of ascent.
But the amazing fact was shown that
the weight Of the atmosphere increased
IN ratio proportioned to the square
OF the distance from the surface down
WafTI " " Il
The magnetic needle also eyinced some
curious disturbance, the dip being in
variably aptedd. It's action also was
exceedingly feeble. and the tlay before
the operations ceased it lost all polar
ity whatever, and the finest magnet
would not meander from the point of
the compass it happened to be left at
for the time being. As Sir Edward
Sabine finely said. 1.-THE hands Of the
magnetic clock stopped" But ac-
tivity ofthe needle gradually increased
as the surface was approached.
| All electrical action also ceased,
which fully confirms the theory Of
Professor Faraday, that electricity
Isl force generated by the rapid axial
revolution Of the earth, and that mag
netlc attraction In all cases points or
operates at right angles to its current .
Hence electricity, from the nature Of
Its cause, must be superficial.
Every appearance of water disap-
peared Mt the depth of only 5000 feet.
From this depth downward the rock
was cf a basaltic character, having not
the slightest appearance OF grinitic
formation, confirming, In a most re-
inarkable manner. the discovery made
only last year, that all GRANTEES are of
dqheOus, instead Of iyne0us, deposition.
AS a corollary from the law Of atmos-
pheric pressure, Ii was found utterly
IMPOSSIBLE TO vAPORrzE WATER
Alta greater depth than $4,000 feet,
which point was reached In 1869. No
amount of heat affected It in the least
perceptible manner, and on weighing
the liquid at the greatest depth attain
ed, by means OF anicely adjusted scale,
1t was found to be of q density express
ed thus l9S, 073O, being two degrees
or integers Of atomic weight heavier
than gold, at the surface.
['The report then proceeds to discuss
the question of the true figure Of khe
earth, whether an oblate spheroid. as
generally supposed. or only truncated
1t the poles; the length OF a degree Of
longitude at the latitude Of Dmlzeele,
5l' 20 n. and one or two other prob
lems-not bearing on the points Of the
iep0rt--we do not wish to Law before
the readers of the Chronicle. The con-
Guiding portion Of the report we re-
prodncr IN full.
For the past twelve months 1t was
found impossible to endure the heat.
even sheltered as the miners were by
the adiathermic cover and cage. for
more than fifteen minutes nj Il time.
SC that the expense Of sinking had in
creased geolnetrically for the past two
wears. However, important results
had been obtained, and perpendicular
depth reached many thousands of feet ;
below the deepest sea sUlmdings Of
Lieutenant Brooks. In fact
THE ENORMOUS EXCAVATION
On the lst of November, 1872, meas
lred. perpendicularly, no less than
~. $40 feet and Q inches from the floor
If the shaft building! The highest
ocak of the Hinmlayas is only Il little
lver $4,000 feet. so chat 1t can at once
" seen that no time had been thrown
lway by the Commissioners since the
INCEPTION Of the undertaking in April,
I240.
The first symptoms of alarm were
cit Oh the evening of November lst.
The men complained Of 4 vast increase )
II heat, anil the cages had to be drop
,ed every five minutes for the greater
,art Of the night and Of those who
ttempted 10 work, ut least one-half
we're extricted IN a cOndition of faint
~ but one degree from syncOpe, To- :
valSlS morning, hoarSa, profound and :
reqnent snbteflHnean explosions were :.
card. which had increasetl at noon to l
me dull, threatening aud continuous J
OAR. 1T the miners went down brave !,
to their tasks, and resolved to work !
long as human endurance could bear 4
!. But this was not to be much longer, !.
lr Il late hour nc night on the 4th. !,
tter hearing terrible explosion, &
fhich shock the whole neighborhood, 4
hot siFoNo Issued from tile bottom 4
'hiGh drove them I'LL out. ina state of !,
sphyxia. The heat at the surface be- =
anne absolutely uncomfortable. aud oil
ending down cage with only a dog o
l II, the materials Of which it was Ia