The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-22

puWeTIulnSSS ol tue cduSe. w hSH, ih
course of time, the sun was removed
from the earth by the continuity of its
retrogradation, the vapors heaped mp
the atmosphere. condensed, and the
great waters were precipitated on the
earth, under the form of rain, with an
excess of fury and greatness which since
has never been equaled. They gave
rise to the universal cataclysm known
by the name of Noah's Delnge. 1t took
place when the snn was in Pisces at 26
degrees, about $3.50 years ago.
The very moment, then, in which the
sun Will retrograde to westward, beyond
0 degree of Libra, its rays will act inn
mediately upon our globe in contrary
direction.
The movement of the earth will be
slackened, and will decrease progressive
ly in order to cease afterwards, without
any disorder, by virture of what the
movements of our planet are common to
all the objects which are on its surface.
We can compare the discontInuance of
it's movement to that of steamer
which slackens more and more before
eeasing to move.
The Mosaic deluge took its rise in the
northwest; the next southern deluge will
proceed from the southeast TO the north-
west. in about 900 years, when the sun,
after having retrograded through the
meridianal signs, shall stand in twenty
six degrees of Virgo. The increasing
proximity of the sun to the autumal
equinox will smite with death all the
living being under the tcrrid
and temperate zones; it will dry up the
water-conrses, will empty the largest
rivers, and by its incessant approach,
will menace our latitudes with gener-
al conhagratIon. The waters it will he
that will save the world. The ocean
will be evaporated in mass in an atmos-
phere that will extend itself, from day
to day, IN greater attitudes, by virtue of
its expansion by heat. This evaporation
will not be accomplished by an Instant
aneous act, but with regular order Of
progression, from which nature never de-
parts. These vapors, which will be
heaped up in clouds, will be able to in
tereept the burning action of the solar
rays. The rain, which is always ready
to pour down from the extreme limits OF
the atmosphere, being continually
evaporated afresh, will reascend to the
uppermost zones bofore reaching the
lower ones, which the radiation of a
blazing soil will render pecuillarlrly apt
to generate vapor. When the continual
retI ogression of the sun will withdraw it
from the earth, these pondereous collec-
tions of water, transformed into clouds,
will lose a considerable portion Of their
heat. The lowering of temperature will
commence in the upper regions of the
atmosphere. The waters that will i'e
the highest up, IN descending toward the
earth, and passing through the interior
regions, will cool them, and the conden-
satInn viii become general. The ocean
will precipitate itself in its immensity,
under the form of rain 1t will he a
torrent-like descent, accompanied by
tempests of unparalleled sublimity.
Terrific winds whirling around the earth.
confagrations of lightning, in a state of
permanence, tearing in its whole extent
a maddened atmosphere. On the sur
face of the planet, volcanic eruptions.
explosions of internal commissions and
earthquakes agitating the crust of the
globe, already tossed by the billows of
an appalling food. Murderous phen-
omena of tempest matchless in terror!
Men will have no words to describe the
boundless and universal sweep of its
awful ravages.