The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-11-03
The Earth Whore We Dwoli,

o"Ii ahoS. Ho tillllltl inspires oxygen
and nitrogen and expires carbonic acid
gas and nitrogen, while the vegetable
inspires carbonic acid gas and expires
oxygen; which In it's turn unites again
with tho free nitrogen and is again
prepared for animal use. And the
vegetable, which retained the carbon,
Is eaten by the animal, and is ready to
be transformed for the benefit of the
vegetable again. In the action Of the
waters Of the earth and the atmosphere
the same law prevails; they constantly
revolve In their sphere. The winds
arc caused by tho rays Of the sun heat.
Ing the atmosphere ut the equator and
causing it to ascend, thereby creating
a vacuum, and the cold air from the
poles eDtangles its way along the sur.
face Of the earth disturbed by numer-
ous obstacles calculated to change its
course, until it rusheS into the vacuum
caused by the absence Of the heated
air, and heated air passes over, and
as 1T chills falls at the poles into the
vacuum created by the absence Of the
cold air.
The waters of the earth are exercised
by the same causes. The heat at the
equator causes tho water to yolatiliZe
and ascend into clouds, causing q
vacuum in tho waters; these are borne
OH by the winds until they come to the
earth at the poles, aud here they fall
and are ecipitated into the sea, form
ing the great oceanic current which
bears them back again to tho vacuum
created by their absence ut tho eQllatO
The disposition of the upper currents
nt ni, Ia, .l,t 1
ascent north Of the equator, ls from
the southeast to the northeast, and
south OF tho equator from tho north.
west to the southwest; but above this
point il is not unreasonable to think
that their disposition is with but little
variance from equator to pole OH a
straight line.
AS these waters are the fruitful
cause OF most Of the conditions We have
mentioned, it is to this source that we
must look for future commissions and
upturnings.
And darkness was upon the face OF
the deep" and tho spirit of God moved
upon the face Of the waters, and God
said: "Let tho waters under the heaven
bc gathered togeLherod unto one place,
and let the dry land appear" We
quote Genesis as an evidence according
to tho Bible that the waters were
adequate to cover the entire earth,
winch is thu only documentary owl
uence VIZ have and which we believe
to be true. In tho absence of light
and solar heat at this epoch we do not
suppose that tho earth bore living OBJ
JeCtS. If this be true tho marine OBJ.
Jccts once possessed Of life found in the
interior OF continents and on tho high
mountains could not have been de-
posted ut that time, consequently they
must have been conveyed there ut some
merging, and how could
tins have been done but by some dis
turbance which caused tho ocean to
break its boundaries?
We know that by revolving a basin-
like receptacle containing water, the
water is not spilled, and VIC understand
the waters Of the ocean are retained in
their place un the same principle, and
III order for them To escape and sub
merge the land the. revolutions must
stop. Has this over taken placer 10
account for the presence OF numerous
fossils Of marine life upon our noun
talnS, Tho furrowing OF the rocks in
the drift epoch; the wandering rocks
resting on the Verge Of mountain
ledGcs, the sweeping away Of the great
living terrestrial objects ut ono stroke,
and the reversing of climate from oX-
tremo torrid to frigld, we say to answer
yes is the most reasonable way to ac-
count for it. And how was this ac-
complishcd2 Simply by the ocean
bearing the solid materials from the
poles to the equator and depositlng
them there, thereby breaking the bal
ance, and causing the earth to seek
new centres.
1t must be plain to every observer
that tho waters vVlatiliZe at the equator
take up with them no solid matter,
but on their deposit and transit to the
ocean they convey vast quantities, and
tho great ocean currents sweeping
down from the polos TO the equator are
constantly conveying on and dropping
untold quantities which never return.
Mo have only to look at our coast
lines to sec that all the solid materials
Of our earth are being conveyed to the
torrid zone. All our shores with q
Northern aspect have abrupt banks
and cliffs, which aro constantly crumb-
iihB INTO Tho sea, ana all those with 4
Southern aspect are tlat and are travel
ing equatorward The same is true
from tho south Pole. and what must
inevitably be tho result? Simply that
the poles must go on fattenlng and
the equator cApau.ing until the pres
ent axis is broken, when the rcvolu-
tlons will cease and the sea break it's
boundaries and the great icy barriers
OF the poles will be broken up and they
will be swept across the oscllating
earth, which is now seeking now con-
tres, rasping and furrowing its solid
surface, dropping upon the hill-tops
their teeth-likc boulders; the unclaimed
sea, bearing its living freight, will
sweep over the earth, hurying in the
mountain tops the remains of its occu-
pants; and the dwcllers on the land
only known to an eQuat Orial climate
will be entomDed where they were ere
ated, but noM resting in Il frigid zone,
and the fosSilatcd remains Of the new
equator will be tho little sharp-tootlled
carniiors of our now frlgid zone.
Fanny Davenport.