influencj: ov tui: g\}lf stream upon climatk.s 53 



again, lie recognized them ;is llie same, for 1h; IiikI ii(;V('r belore 

 «een any like them; and on hoth oceaKions lie fre({U(;ntly iiauhid 

 u\) hnck(;ts full and examin(;d them. 



Now the Western J,slan(Js is the great place of resort for whal(;s , 

 and at first there ia something curious to us in the idea that the 

 Gulf of Mexico is the harvest field, arul the (iulf Stream the 

 gleaner wliich collects the fruitage plant(;d there, and conv(;ys it 

 thousands of miles off to the hungry whale at sea. Jiut Ijovv j)( r- 

 fectly in unison is it with the kind and j)rovidential care of that 

 great and good Jjeing which feeds the young ravens when they 

 cry, and caters for the sparrow! 



(H). The sea has its climates as wcjIJ as the land. I'hey hoth 

 change with the latitude ; hut one varices with the elevation ahove, 

 the other with the depression helow the sea level. Each is reg- 

 ulated hy circulation ; hut the regulators are, on tliri onr; hand, 

 winds ; on the otlutr, currents. 



07. TIk; irjhahitants of the ocean are as much the creatures of 

 climate as are those of the dry land ; for the same Almighty hand 

 which decked the lily and cares for the sparrow, fasiiionc^d also the 

 pearl and feeds the great whale. Whether of the land or the sea, 

 Ihey are all his creatures, suhjects of his laws, and agents in his 

 economy. 'J'he sea, therefore^, we infer, has its offices and duties 

 lo perform ; so may we infer, have its currents, and so, too, it^ 

 inhahitants ; corLsequently, he who undertakes to study its phe- 

 nomena, must cease to regard it as a waste of waters, lie must 

 look upon it as a part of the exquisite machinery by which the 

 harmonics of nature are preserved, and then he will begin to per- 

 ceive the developments of order and the evidences of design which 

 make it a most beautiful and interesting subject for contemplation. 



OS. To one who has never studied the mechanism of a watch, 

 its main-spring or the balance-wheel is a mere piece of mental. 

 He may have looked at the face of the watch, and, while he arl- 

 mires the motion of its hands, arrd the time it keeps, or the tune il 

 plays, he may have wondered in idle amazement as to the char- 

 acter of the machinery which is concealed within. '^Fake it t(j 

 pieces, and show him each part separately ; he will rocognizr; 

 neither design, nor adaptation, nor relation between them ; but 

 put them together, set them to work, point out the offices of each 

 spring, wheel, and cog, ex]:>lain their movements, and then show 



