The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-10
Eow CLIMATES CHANGE.
Adirondack" Murray Tells the Story
of Changes in Historic Times.

OF Changes in Historic Times.
w. Fl. II. Murray in the Boston G ole.
It's matter of knowledge to many
men and women horn in New England
that the summers are longer as measured
by the heated term and the winters
warmer than they were a half century
ago, and that this result has beenroached
by slowly but surely operating causes ::
and this slow sure change in the climate
or the country is one of mOmentous
interest not only to the naturalist, but 10
the average citi enas well, for should it
continue, vast changes would fol-
low in the industries and products
OF the country, as well as in
its hvgienic conditions. 1t would
not be an unprecedented experience if the
northern hair of the American continent
was passing through climatic change
of so positive sort as to become memo
Table IN the history of the globe For
while scientific observation aud records
are of too recent period TO supply us
with adequate data for intelligent ludg-
ment as TO it, nevertheless literature is
filed with evidence bearing directly upon
the point, and so implicit iii it nature and
so emphatic in its iteration as to be I'M
impeachable AS most Americans are
too busy to know much of the past. it
passages in ancient writings which might
re quoted in enforcement of our sugges-
ton, go
The land of Palestine is certainly not
to-day 4 wiutry country But thirty or
more eenturics ago an an -icut poet wrote:
Hast thou entered into the treasure of
the snow, Or hast thou seen the treas
ures of the han, Out of whose womb
came the ice and the hoary frost of
heaven, who hath generated it, The
waters are hidden as with . solid rock.
ana the face Of the deep is fro en-" Such
evidently, was the degree and effect of
the cold in the land OF the hlidianites
thirty centuries ago. And David writ
ing several centuries later, gives the fol-
lowing description of intense winter
weather; He giyeth snow like wool
He scattereth the boar frost like ashes
fife castcth forth MS ice like morsels.
Who can stand before his cold!" Such is
the account of the climate in the land of
Palestine tWenty-elght and thirty Centu-
ries ago. But, instead of snow, nail. ice
with the solidity of rock, and frozen sea.
the inhabitants of that country today live
IN hot, sultry climate, in which snow
and ice are never seen. The climate of
Italy, as it was OF old time. and the great
change which has come to it, are not be.
yond the students knowledge Virgil
was both poet ana skilled agricultu-
rlst, aTJ in his Georges he oftan gives
directions for the security of young cattle
against the dangerous effects of ice and
snow ana periods of intensely cold
weather. His directions were for the
neighborhood of Mantla and Naples, and
when speaking of Calabria the most
southern and hottest part of italy. he al
ludes TO the freezing of the large rivers
and streams as thing to be expected an
nnallY. Nor does he stand alone in his
witness as TO this matter, for Pliny. Juye-
nal, and other authors of their time sneak
of ice and snow as prevalent in all parts
OF Italy while Hlian, if we remember
correctly, devotes whole chapter to the
giving of specific directions of how to FISH
for eels wnen the rivers are covered with
ice. These descriptions of Italian eli
mate apply as it was eighteen centuries
ago.
Ovid can be quoted in this connection
also. We are writing from memory and
with less fulness than we might could we
turn TO the authors books, but should
any classciSt be interested TO follow
US he will find that our recollection is
essentially correct This poet was
banished from, Italy TO Tomas by the
emperor. This place is near the coast of
the Euxine sea and climatically includes
the region round. about Constantinonle
He spent seven years in exile in this
region, and he tells us that he saw the
Euxine or Black sea covered with ice
that this ice was not only strong enough
TO support men, but oxen and heavy sleds
loaded with products. He states more.
over, that the wine of thelcountrv was
often frozen, and that the snow
in many places in the forests
was never fully melted during Inc
entire summer. 1t is well established