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temperature, that the snows melt at their bottoms, and their waters, 

 dropping down into the chambers of stone in the trenches, keep the 

 latter full to the surface of the subsoil, and overflowing through the 

 surface soil as though a sponge, keeping the frost out of the earth ; 

 and I find my strawberry plants growing green beneath the snow, 

 making the white roots, etc. 



" And so it is, that the deeper down the waters are dropped the 

 warmer they become, and the deeper the snows the warmer the soil 

 beneath them, and the more the melting at their bottoms goes on. 

 What could be done in countries like Labrador, Alaska, Greenland, 

 Iceland, etc., by deep trenching during their short summers, I leave 

 to the imagination. To say the least, if they have the right kind of 

 slopes and hillsides in Canada, if that cold country can be annexed 

 to the United States, we will allow our neighbors of that hitherto 

 less hospitable region to come in under our system of protection 

 from the rule of the Frost King." 



" THE ANGLER comes as a cheerful companion, pointing back to 

 memories of youth. It is a charming paper. Long may it wave. 



A. N. COLE. 



Home, on the HUlside, Wellsville, N. Y., March 19, 1885. 



In the following quotations from our address at Cooper Union 

 the reader will bear in mind that, on the succeeding morning, 

 March 25th, the metropolitan press teemed with mention of Dr. 

 Edson's report touching the impurities of the waters of the Croton, 

 As the briefest among these editorial articles and the one coming 

 most directly to the point, we quote from the Sun as follows: 



" The Health Commissioners yesterday considered Dr. Edson's re- 

 port of the examination which has been made of the Croton water- 

 shed, but refused to make it public. It was learned that the report 

 speaks of the rapidly growing population of the surrounding dis- 

 trict as a source of increasing contamination of the water supply. 



