The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-02-13

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IA. Do not Al sll compars fivorably
sith oar Islands, aod yet, strange ss
i may seem, bat few Of our people
understand the case clearly. Thsy
knos that oranges have been planted
and grown successfully 90 Mon LOU.
Island, sud that parties arc msking
money at tie business, still they are
expecting TO soon hear that the
groves have been "killed out" and
that orange growing is an inglorious
failure about the mouth OF Mobile
Bay. But they will never hear any
thing Of that sort. When oranges
cannot be successfully AMI prodtably
grown on these islands il will be fol-
ly to undertake the business at any
point above 20o north latitude.
Wehavs fact to present 10 sup,
port OF Of this position that may have
escaped the notice Of large per cent.
of our readers. Has 1t occurred to
you that Dauphin and Mon Louis and
other islands lying along the coast,
betwee Mobile BAY and the mouth of
the Mississippi, are washed by the
warmest wal ers that have an exis-
tence in the ocean ? 1t Is 30. The
line Of hibgest temperature in the
ocean, generally called the Oceanic
starts, We may say, at a
temperature of so deg. F. in the
Gulf Of Guinea, Africa, whore ii is on
the geographical line of the Equator.
Soon alter leaving tho African coast,
coming West, it bears north Of the
Equator. At mid-ocean in the At,
Ianiic, it is about five degrees north
Of the Equator, and has Q tempera-
ture OF SO degrees. 1t nears the
South American coast at about ten
1egrees north latitude, with temper>
lture Of 50 degrees thence it coa- {
inues along the coast, enters the {
Caribbean Sea, passes the west point
If Cuba, and makes directly for the {
mouth OF the Mississippi. When |
within degree Of the BalIze it cir i
les abruptly around to the west and n
outh, striking the land precisely at c
he dividing line between Mexico and
1ucatan. Where tho line passes a
Juba the temperature is SO degrees. u
ut at its nearest point to the mouth a
{ the Mississippi it hassrisen to SO q
egrees-the warmest water found 10 p
he ocesu, being twen,y-nine degrees a
boye temperat To and only nine de- D
rees below blood heat. The next
'armest point in all the ocean ia in O.
10 Pacific, Immediately on the geo. h
raphical Equator and off the nortn- .,
m coast of New Guinea, but there G,
le temperature is q little below that Ia
the point named, of the mouth of Al
le Mississippi. Il
And now for how this has an in c,
uence on our islands: This point Of @,
ighest temperature is Immediately "
the Gulf stream, which flowing to "
,stwald with great velocity strikes a.
'e Florida cape and keys. These a,
1t a shaving from the Gulf stream, 3
, it were, which comes whirling b.
,ck In a counter current or eddy oc- OF
ipying the indentatiou between the n,
lorida cape and the out jutting o.
.nds at the mouth Of the Mississippi. u
nd encircling our islands in sea Of a,
,quatorisl temperature I; which must p
Iways make them the most favored 81
range lands on the northern diyis- al
,n of the New World. d
1t may be argued that the lands b
D some Of these islands are poor. Y
1hat OF that ? Man may make his q
nds rich easy enough, bqI be cannot :. ::
axe o climate. If all the people a