for the national republican. ^ 
Remark 
roboro 
event. % applied ae eo? 
theory of the Earth . 
European papers state, that the last 
winter was unusually cold in Iceland, 
and unusually mild in the more south¬ 
ern parts ©f Europe; and the Green¬ 
landers say, they have their coldest 
winters whenever the more southern 
countries have mild ones: also, the 
fishermen say, when they have a mild 
winter in England, they are sure to 
meet with an unusual quantity of ice 
in the Greenland sea. 
These circumstauces have proved to 
me-—what is recently further conn m- 
ed, by the unusual quantity of ice found 
last year in the northern seas—-that 
Iceland and Greenland are within the 
concave, and border on the verge; and 
that the severity of the winters de¬ 
pend on our sphere balancing nearer 
or farther, on any given side, from its 
next-neighbour sphere. Those two 
countries do not, I conclude, admit of 
gardening or the culture of grain; be¬ 
cause the sun’s rays reach them much 
moie faintly than without, owing to 
their being bent by refraction. 
For the application of many other 
facts,such as a darker sea and sky. a less 
dazzling sun, Slc. which go to show 
that those two countries exist beyond I 
the real verge, and between it and the 
apparent verge, I refer my reader to 
my map and explanation published as 
a newspaper supplement, in Cincinnati, 
in September last. 
The first number of The Museum of 
Foreign Literature and Science (edited 
by Mr. Walsh) contains an account of 
a general and extraordinary fall of the 
barometer in various parts of Europe 
on the 24th, 25th and 26th of Decem¬ 
ber, 1821, simultaneous with which 
fall, a volcano in Iceland was in a state 
irruption. 
