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becomes an upper current, giving out its heat for the most part into stellar space, 

 and doing but little to warm other portions of the globe, whereas in the case of 

 ocean currents, the warmest water comes to the surface, and flows over or along 

 the surface of the ocean, giving out its warmth to the air above it, and, as I have 

 already shown, heating a much greater volume of air than its own volume, and 

 bringing heat directly from the hottest parts of the globe to the temperate and 

 polar regions, thereby reducing the heat of the one region, and elevating the tem- 

 perature'of the other region. And, again, it must be noticed that the cold water 

 currents "sink to the lower strata of the ocean, and do not directly chill or cool down 

 the air above them, though of course the cold currents have the effect of generally 

 reducing the temperature of the ocean, and thus indirectly aflEect the climate. If 

 all the equatorial regions of the globe were solid land, we should have no equatorial 

 currents at all, and only very feeble currents in the temperate regions, and hence 

 we should lose the benefit of the great amount of heat which I have shown comes 

 into the Atlantic, and the effect would be an increase of heat about the equator, 

 and a very considerable decrease of heat in the temperate regions, and to some 

 degree a lowerint? or decrease in the heat of the whole globe, as the hot air over the 

 tropics would ascend to the upper regions, and give out its warmth into steUar 

 space. I must not, on this occasion, say more than to point out to you that 

 equatorial currents flowing towards the poles exist in every ocean in both hemi- 

 spheres. 



THE TAME HAEES OF CAEADOC. 

 By Miss Helen Caddick. 



" other shelter'd hares 

 That never heard the sanguinary yell 

 Of cruel man, exulting in t/tetr v/oes. — Cowper. 



On the 9th of July, 1880, four little leverets were found in some mowing grass at 

 Oaradoc. They were considered to be not more than a week old. They were too 

 young to eat, and did not do so until nearly a fortnight afterwards. They were 

 put together in a basket of hay, and, after much trouble and perseverance, some 

 warm milk was given them. They would not take it themselves, nor would they 

 suck a quUl, but at last some was given to each of them from a small medicine 

 drop-glass. They were fed the last thing at night, but next morning early two 

 of them were dead, and the others seemed almost dying ; some warm milk was 

 given immediately, and they were nursed into warmth and comfort. It seemed 

 evident that they required feeding through the night, and this was done for the 

 future, three or four times each night, with mUk just warm. They soon began to 

 know the glass, and, when lifted from their box of hay, would come runmng 

 towards it, and whilst one was fed, the other would sit up, and beat impatiently 

 with its little paws, until its own turn came. 



