Miscellanies. 201 
Anterior to these instances in 1828 and 1829, it does not appear 
that ice was ever seen north of 42° or 43° of Lat. in the Southern 
Ocean. In 1789, the transport ship Guardian, was near striking 
against a mountain of ice in 44° 10’ S. Lon. 44° 35’ E. 
In the southern hemisphere, the ice most distant from the pole, has 
been met with in the month of April. It might then be supposed 
that in the corresponding month of October, in the northern hemis- 
phere, ice would be found at the greatest distance from the Arctic 
pole. It appears, however, that it is in the same month of April, or 
in May that ice is more frequently met with in low latitudes in the 
northern seas. Several instances of this are mentioned by the au- 
thor, and the fact appears to be well established. 
The existence of a great extent of land near the antarctic circle 
would seem to be necessary to account for the agglomeration of large 
masses of southern ice. But as we know of no land in a situation 
to produce ice, which, by wind and waves setting towards the N. and 
N. E., could drive masses of ice into the positions in which those of 
1828 and 1829 were found, their occurrence must be attributed to 
some unknown cause, such as an earthquake, or a volcanic eruption 
the effect of which might be to displace large masses near the south- 
ern pole, and thus to produce a phenomenon before unobserved. 
But even in such a case, the anomaly of its occurence in the month of 
April, at the same time that the northern ice reaches the lowest lati- 
tude, north, would indicate the existence of simultaneous currents, 
setting from each pole towards the equator, instead of their happen- 
ing at periods corresponding to the seasons in each hemisphere.— 
Bib. Univ. Juin, 1831. 
2. Red Beets—(Betterave Champetre,) furnish froma given sur- 
face of ground, a greater quantity of nutriment for horses and cattle, 
than any other kind of forage. Wherever its cultivation is under- 
stood, it has the preference over all other roots. It succeeds in al- 
most all soils, is but little affected by the vicissitude of seasons, does 
not much fear drought; and prepares the ground very well for a 
succeeding crop. 
Throughout Belgium and Germany, the leaves are from time to 
time stripped off and given to cattle, which eat them with avidity, and 
easily fatten upon them. Fowls also are fed upon them; they are 
first hashed up and mixed with bran. Pigs eat them with a good 
relish. Milch cows when fed upon them, fatten at the expense of 
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