The Republican journal., 1874-05-28
Is the Water Disappearing from the
EartrY

| biologists assert that all purts OF the rlrGl
were once covered by water Such being The
ease, then there must have been more water 4
| that time than there is now, when over one
fourth part of the carthS surface Is not covered
| But how is il at the present time, on since the
| earth became nhabitc,l> ZOOS, it continue /,
disappear | believe that it ICES aud W. vii
see what proof can be brought to nb tantiate
this theory. Ii the tccv on our coast 10 moi
flow so high a. they formerly did, ind cbb low.
er, thie would be proof. Now with regard tl
their ehbing lower. All sepinen Who have fol
lowed Their calling on our Goa any length of
time will inform YOU that hedges and breakers
appear at low water that Werr formerly not
seen, and those that were Seen only Al very low
tides or in gal1s of Wind, arc seen now ii most
every tide, or thr breakers appear In every lille
when there much oi / sea. 30 universally
has this been noticed among aeamen that 4
large class of them, to reconcile these facts be
Iieye That these Lodge, ana royl that he poy-
cred 10y water, grow.
The ancient sea WALL touni bat. from the
| coast from the eastern foot hills ri the Allie
ghany Mountains through Georgia and the
tarollnas TO the sea wall Of gravel along the
coast OF Maine, are Sufficient proof that the
tides formerly flowed higher. / have noticed
some Of these sea walls OF gravel There is
one used ior a highway in lslrSboru'. AT the
narroWs, being the only road between the two
parts Of the town, and has been 50 used for So
years past. This >ra wall or road must be a
number of feet lower than formerly, a, nothing
i, added TO make it higher by the town. and yet
1t Is above the tides and no additions made Ia it
by the waves lor The M~t toltv wears. to my
knowledge.
In sinking 4 we'll at The. Camp Ground in
this town, after gcltin" down few feet the
original shore on beach WAS reached, with its
blue clay and tide washed rocks some twenty
feet vertically higher than the tides now how.
The bones of whale found embedded in soft
blue clay near the Maine Central depot. Ban
gor, We're i lumber of feet above any tide at
that place FINS whale probably SWAN uI
drttcd up with the tit, in the summer season
over the Maine Central depot.
The disappearing OF the water explains why
Biologists say that the ,and Of Northern
Europe is gradually rising, and especially the
Scandinavian Peninsula where water marks
have been kept for several hundred years. Ii
also explains why coral islands of the Pacific
and Indian Oceans are elevated high enough to
be covered with groves OF trees ana dense
vegetation, so AS to be inhabited.
There are islands that are formed by Volcanic
uphcayals, as the Hawaiian OF Sandwich Islands.
but the elevation of the coral banks of the
tropical oceans are not caused by volcanic fires.
as no igneous rocks are found among them. and
can be explained only by the driving M or dis
appearing of the water.
Water cannot be annihillteil, and where tjn,.s
IL go 10: says one. Neither can any other
known substance be annihael The coal that
has been consumed by steamer in her passage
across the Atlantic, is not annihilated in its
elements, but portion Of it may be lost to the
earth Notwithstanding. A part Of the coal is
left in form of ashes, but a part in gases have
gone up to the higher regions of the atmosphere
and a portion of it may be lost to the earth If
the elements of water We're separated, where
would they go to? The hydrogen would prob
ably take high altitude, perhaps fifty, or. for
aught we know, five hundred miles, or so high
that the attraction would be lost, and it would
pass Off into space. 1t may be that all the wa
ter that goes up from the earth does not return
again, but is lost or decomposed in the upper
regions of the atmosphere
DENTER FARRAR.
East Northport, May %.
ben. Butler, who has been sick is
getting better. 1t is vain to find fault with