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(snow-capped mountains and the absen< t vegeta- 

 tion) is due to the excessive Hydrogen existing in 

 those regions, which under natural law surrounds the 

 planet, and is continually, during the earth's revolu- 

 tions, drawn into the atmosphere, and is one of its 

 most important constituents. Tliis fact is not recog- 

 nized at the present day by any branch of science, 

 wherever existing, neither has it ever been recognized 

 in any past age; all schools claiming, without a single 

 exception, that Hydrogen is dangerously inflammable, 

 and that its effects in composite matter only are to be 

 traced in our atmosphere ami earth. A more thorough 

 recognition of the mysterious element and its natural 

 function will prove it to he the very opposite of what 

 it is now claimed to he. It is the one elemenl 

 identified in cold sensation, and the indisputable 

 element in all cold effects, of whatever nature; the 

 very element also that subjugates Phosphorus or tire. 

 Its effects are witnessed in rain, moisture, dew, clouds, 

 fogs, snow, hail, winds, blizzards, winter, ozone, the 

 green color of vegetation, and in its more widely 

 diffused form, the oceans of the earth. Late authen- 

 ticated works from the pens of the most advanced 

 scientific men of the present day claim that our 

 atmosphere is composed of four-fifths Nitrogen and 

 one-fifth Oxygen* the elastic condition serving the 

 purpose of a vehicle for dust or anything else passing 

 into it. Argon is the latest constituent, said to be 

 discovered in 1894. 



L>1. A close and persistent study of the relation 

 that exists between these four pises confirms the 

 truth that the Sun of our system is a mass of Phos- 

 phorus, Hydrogen, Carbon and Nitrogen, acting 



* C. Beringer, Chief Assaycr, Rio Tinto Copper Company. London; Fellow Royal 

 Chemical Society, and ..I [nstitute of Chemistry. Also, J J. Beringer, Assoc. Royal 

 School of Mines; Fellow Royal Chemical Society, an. I of Institute of Chemistry; 

 Lecturer to Mining Assoc, and Inst, of Cornwall, and public Analyst for the County of 

 Cornwall, etc in " Text- Book of Assaying, for the Use o< Thosi Connected with 

 Mines." Page 356. 



