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Brooklyn EagIz


and Report Upon.
Brooklyn EagI=
The recent succession of mild winters
have given rise to the inquiry. is the
North America climate undergoing a
changer The old resident Is apt to be
emphatic in the assertion that it Is, snd
thst the change has produced milder
winters. Whether tbis is true or not Is
an open question. The old resident is
likely to find h s recollection more vivid
~ to the seasons Of extreme temperature.
The mild seasons may pass out of mis-
memory altogether Certain facts are
not to be disputed. One Is ihat winters
vary in the degree Of the intensity Of
their coId that ia to say, one winter will
exceed another in intensity. Another
is that .or two or three years past the
average temperature for The cold season
has been higher than those which imme>
diately preceded them. But whether
there is 8 ornament change, which is the
result of the operation Of natural forces
is question which is well worth dis
cussion and investigation. The climate
Of a country largely depends upon its
con6guration. 1t has clearly been DEM
onstrated by Humboldt that the physical
formation ofJhe surface Of the country
contributes to make the temperature
And it il for this reason that we find
such a discrepancy in the climates OF the
same latitude. For instance, we occupy
the same latitude with Spain, yet the
difference is as marked as between Florida
and New York. Scotland, Ireland and
Labrador are in the same latitude, but
their climates differ materially. The
physical formation has 10 do with this
and, as well, the Gull stream. Labrador
is to a certain extent a plain, rarely
broken with lakes OF large bodies OF
water. The surfaces OF Scotland and
Ireland are diversified with mountains
and valleys, in the latter OF which lie
many lakes. Thus we can understand
why the climate of Labrador is stern and
and cold. But there Is a difference be-
tween Scotland and Ireland and here we
find the influence exerted by the Gulf
stream. This curious phenomenon OF the
Atlantic Ocean which does not touch the
shores Of Labrador, skirts one corner OF
Scotland and sweeps along a large por-
ton of the shores of Ireland. Therefore
there is found climate somewhat more
genial in Ireland than in Scotland.
Aside, then, from the influence Of the
warmth the Gulf stream brings to the
climate, the elevation OF mountains with
their slopes to the seas or to the lower
points of the valleys, and the lakes lying
therein, have to do with the conditions
and degrees Of the climate.
But in North America this condition
of Topography was the same fifty years
900. Ifthere l. q change in our climate
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