The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-07-03
7 How Climates. Change.

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How Climates Change.
RECORDS QUOTED TO SHOW THAT THF
EARTH'S HEAT STEADILY INCREASES
IS WITH THE. PASSAGE OF YEARS.
From the Boston Globe. @s@ $50 asas
i 1t is a, matter of knowledge to many
men and women born in New England
that the summers are longer-as meas
ured by the heated term-and the win
tiers warmer than-they were half cen
fury ago, and that this result has been
reached by slowly but surely operating
causes, and that this slow but sure
change in the climate of the country is
one of molnentous interest not only to
the naturalist, but to theaverage citizen
I as well, for should it continue vast
changes would follow in the industries
and products OF the country, as we'll as
| its hygienic conditions y E -
1t would not be an unprecedented ex-
! perience if the northern half of the
4 American continent was passing through
a climatic change of SO positive sort as
to become memorable in the history OF
i the globe. For while scientific observa-
tions and records are of too recent a pc
riod to supply us with adequate data
theless literature is filled with evidence
bearing directly upon the point. and so
implicit in its nature and SO emphatic in
its iteration as to be unimpeachable. As
most Americans are too busy to know
much of the past, it may be of interest
should we recall a few of the passages in
ancient writings which might be quoted
In enforcement OF our suggestion or sur
| mise. =
i The land Of Palestine is certainly not
day a wintry country. But thirty or
more. centuries ago an ancient poet
wrote: Hast thou entered into the
treasures of the snow? Or hast thou
seen the treasures of the hail? Out of
i whose womb came the ice and the .hoary
frost OF. heaven; who hath gendered it?
! The waters are hidden as with a solid
rock, and the face of the deep is frozen y
Such, evidently, was the degree and eff
feet of the cold in the land of the Midi
] antics thirty centuries ago. And David,
4 writing several centuries later, gives the
following description of intense winter
weather: He giveth snow like wool
i He scattereth the hOar frost like ashes
! He scattered forth his ice like morsels.
Who can stand before his cold - Such is
4 the account of the climate in the land of
/ Palestine twenty eight and thirty eentu-
Il riess ago. ~
! But instead of snow, hail, ice with the
solidity of rock, and frozen sea, the in
habitants of that country to-day live in
a hot, sultry climate, in which snow and
ice are never seen.
Inc cllmate OF Italy, as IL was OF Old
TIME, ana the great change WHICH has
come to 1t, are not beyond the students
knowledge. Virgil was both poet and
u skilled agriculturist. And in his
'Georgieso he often gives directions for
the security of young cattle against the
dangerous effects of ice and snow and
periods OF intensely cold weather. His
! directions were for the neighhorhood of
Mantua and Naples, and when speaking
OF Calabria, the most southern and hot
! test part of Italy, he alludes to the freez-
/ ing OF the large rivers and streams as to
| be annually expected.
| Nor does he stand alone i'll his witness
as to this matter, for Pliny, Juyenal and
other authors OF their time speak of ice
and snow as prevalent in all parts OF Italy,
while Allan, il we remember correctly,
devotes whole chapter to the giving of
specific directions of how to fish for cells
when the rivers are covered with ice
These descriptions OF Italian climate
apply to it as it was eighteen centuries
| aga.
Ovid can be quoted in this connection
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with less fullness than we might could
we turn to the authors books, but should
any caasslclst De interested TO follow US ha
Will ma tnat oHr fecQlleetlan IS essen
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