Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1878-03-08

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AT 4 meeting of the Amesicsn Gee-
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address uis susjeet oeing Ine Leo
graphical Work Of lfe Wofld in 1877. !"
We sive the following svuopsis al fie
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Beginning with the wears research
On physical Geography. Judge DAILY said
she epision was essnsng gsound thai
there have been many successive a..
elaI periods with semi-trupieaI intervals.
ard that the fossil. Of The Arctic rone
skDw ihaf = iaxnriaus vekrsasssnfore-
| vailed there In fhe past. These phe-
nomena have been referred to astre-
nomicsl eauses, which have produced
changes in the positica of the eiobe 60
| the sun. w. L. Watts, Who has re-
| eenfiy explored he raina yokoll, a,000
square miles or ice and snow. In lee
land, thinks that the ice there as we'll
ss throughout the interior Of Greenland.
IL growing, that The Gulf Stgesm il be-
| ing gradually Detected towards the
south. and thai GLACIAL epoch appears
| 10 BE- creeping down from the nosth.
Ms. r.. A. Wallace, who has been sta
diving the Antiquity OF the continents,
believes the temperate regions OF the
Old World 20 be she most ancient.
Nerth ard South Ameries, be thioks,
we're once divided BY strait. They
have ee<h Z disfinct tauna, but the mol
lusca og The Caribbean Sea and The Pa
ci6c coast are similar. But our knowl-
edge j. not Sufficiently advsncedfo admit
Of sny theory as to the age Of the earth
that can be relied on as probable. Judge
Daily closed this division cEhis address
witlfa mention Of Mr.. Edisonts won
derftl phonograph.
After referring TO "a. Broca's address
10 the French Association al Havre
upon the fossil human remains Of Wes-
tern Europe, the speaker turaed TO the
archeologists; to Mr.. Eayard' ,Armen-
ian relics Of art;- TO Mr.. Chaco's identi-
scation Of fly common. word IN tie
Basque language with The Sanscrlt; to
the discovery Of an inscribed bronze
tablet at Olympia, mentioning an un-
kaown town, Chaladrus, and dating
back 10 900 b. c.; TO General di Cess
nola's and DR.. Schliemsnn's treasures
and the books descriptive thereof beth
published during the year, and the trans
fer Of Cleopaira's Needle 10 Londan and
the discovery of Columbus remains in
SanG5' Domingog As 10 tbS obclisk he
fears that il wall decay in the air of
London as the column OF Luxor has been
decaying ut Paris. He sees now no
reason Why the Santo Domingo remains
should not be accepted as genuine.
The wotx for the year OF the United
States Engineer Corps under its distin-
gnished chief, General Humphreys, is
reviewed at some length. From Lieu
tenant Magaire's sccount Of the Aricka-
rees may be quoted few lines: "They
are sedaie. even the young never smii.
OF a supreme being, but also worship
The MotheT.' ssho, they believe, on
leaving them ages ago, left them an ear
OF corn as legacy aud who has spe-
cial charge OF them, driving in for them
the various kinds Of game. Their chiefs
are elective. They have numerous le-
gends and songs, and their language %
very crude. containing about 700 words.
They can count mp TO 1000. and the
word for man Is the word for '20,' the
man being the sum Of his fingers and
toes" - ST. ~
Lieutenant Wyse, Of the French
Navy, who conducted the expedition
for ascertaining route for canal across
the Isthmus of Darien, has published
preliminary report that no navigable
ckanaal ss possible between the Tuyra
and the Otrato without locks and tun-
neliing. sfAefwaters parting. he ENDS,
siaks in the Col du Thulo 10 $50 feet.
He recommends the route from Chucu-
maque 10 Grsdi. Bright, west Of lhe out
let Of The Gulf Of Uraba or Darien, and
he 10 10 make further investigation this
winter. aragea - - - .
M. de Puydt's plan for the canal IL to
start on The Atlantic side from Puerto
Escandido. shout one hundred and forty
miles south OF Panama, following the
River fuTgaudis % the yailey Of Tsue-
Ia, thence ecsosss the CordilleTa range
through the defile between Mali and
Estola peaks, at q height Of forty-five
metres abose the sea level, and con-
tinue thence by the valley Of the River
Puero 10 the Pacific side. s4
DR.. A. lie Plougan has been able 20
deeipher By means Of the alphabet pre-
n a n A n J. .