488 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
be regretted from our point of view. One likes to see the native as 
mon in cultivation.” 
III. Miscettanrgous Screntiric INTELLIGENCE. 
1. The Ice of Greenland and the Antarctic.—Dr. James 
Crot has a paper, in the Philosophical Magazine for November, 
opposing the view that the universal ice-covering of Greenland is 
a consequence of the elevation of the land. He states that no 
in the margin. He also accepts as most probable the opinion, 
long since expressed by Giesecke, and more recently by Dr. 
Brown, that th 
together by ice. 
- Croll also argues that the Greenland condition is probably 
that of the Antarctic—a collection of rather low islands “ bound 
together by a continuous sheet of ice,” as Sir Wyville Thomson 
as said, covering a space of about 4,500,000 square miles. 18 
conclusion as to its little elevation is stated to follow from the 
low and even top, and the stracture, of the Antarctic ice-barrier. 
Its horizontal stratification-bands indicate, by their number and 
the thickness of the mass, a long period of annual deposition of 
snows; and also that the barrier is probably removed hundreds 
of miles from the region of dispersion, especially since there are 
none of the usual marks of a former glacier-condition, such a$ 
iords. The 
occupy thirty 
0°, and hence be only zyth of a 
