The weekly Arizona miner., 1880-01-16
Few Timely Remarks oy the New York
 "sun'-The Red Planet Mars.

Mars is fast losing inc b.iIiiarCy llrai a mouth or two ago made lt lhe mo,t con spicuOus object iE ihe evening sky. Ii, distance from ihc earth ], rapidly increasing, and next year it will bc Tar aNaY aud com paratiyeiy dim 1nu.c who fail tg improve the present opportunity of -iuayIug Its spotted globe Niih ihe telescope s'.i have to wait until isSi Irrespective ot iis iso curious moons, Mars is, upon ihe wholr. 'he most interesting ui aii the B aue1- 70 ;h: in- habitants of the earth heeat,. Ee ku5w iaoTc about its surface ihan about tua, c.: any other celestial body, except gac uivoH- All the lands and seas ut Mar W.Te mapped log astronomers before Livingstone had mace known the interior of Air.ta. ~I earfhHkc are some of the surface marking. oi llIi~ dl>- taut planet one can easily imagine .H8t men and women like ourselves lnhaJit II. BuJ astronomers are TeaCbing conclusions about the temperature of NarS WhiCh icBd tu sAoN that even an EsquimauX would need iu ;ake along an extra snppiy of iuFs tp make Aim comfortable on the Juddy planet.
 The observer who st-dics NaTs .u g p0w- erful telescope is apt 10 jump .o certain conclusions which be > 10th jo abandon.
 
 mers' theories oi MarS's temperature. He beholds what he can hardly doubt aIe con tincnts ana oceans spread oyer thc planets surface Al either pole he sees white circle which waxes ant wanes with the ye- treat ana advance Uf lie Martial summer. and which analogy teaches him IS polar snow field He cDnsu!:s a map of Mas, and with its aid, is able to cal! the i4Has and seas by name. Judging from the Cii- mates of the earth, as they arev4Cicd bv DO sition in latitude, he concludes tha; Lap lace Land is, like our Grecnland, country of whalers, anu a starting point for arctic explorers lB ,he same way he decides that CuperuicuS Land .s, probab.y, iand of iungles and tIgers, aui that tue coasts ut Herschel Continent may haze skies is soft as those of Naples. When ne studies the position of Forkel Bay nearly n thc centre of the southern coast of Dawes CoDt.ncat, and observes is admirable situation with respect tO the oceans and wafer ways iha, encircc the planet, hc pictures a great com mcTciaI metropolis at that point, ana longs for telescope with magulfyin1 bower ot j0,0GG,000 times that he might see in the streets and whaTvCs, and thc ships crowding iu and out
 After Indulg.ns iD such flncics as these, which are specially attractive, because in the IIght of the telescopes revelations they seem based on strong probability, how chill ing Is the announcement that Mars suffers from an almost glacial degree of cold. As astronomers give many reasons for this be- lief and it must be confessed that their reasoning seems convincing. Proctor says Mars IS probably almost in 8 state of plan- etary decrepitudc, having long ago passed the stage in which the higher forms of life exist He points 10 the fact that on Mars land and sea are nearly equal in extent, from which it may be argued that the planet IS midway between the condition of the earth and that of the moon, for on the moon the waters have entirely disappeared, either by withdrawal into ihc interior, or in some other way The seas of Mars are remark able. They wind about among the c.-nti- nents and islands, and are connected by long and narrow straits. There Is no Pa cific or Atlantic Oucan. Ail the seas are small, and some stretch five hundred Of thousand miles, in the shape of narrow aIms, or lakes, only Q hundred miles or so n breadth.
 Those who prefer ,o believe hat where there arc continents there are cities, and where there are oceai there are ships, may. after all, derive consolation from the re- tlection that nature, in her infinite varicty and versatility, may have equipped our sup posititicus Martial brethern for the rigors of their climate Have we not on our own little globe the EsquimauX and the Hotten- totl