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COMMUNICATED. 
Gentlemen: To my first number of a se¬ 
ries of questions, dated in January last, and 
printed in your paper, I now add a second 
—the former being yet unanswered. 
Any who doubt the correctness of my 
Theory of the Earth, are desired to answer 
the following queries: 
Why does a west course from Europe, 
along any given parallel of latitude, lead 
progressively to a climate of colder winters, 
as tar west as the plains of Missouri, and 
why is a reverse course, toward the east 
coast of Asia, attended with a like result, 
unless the formation l describe, in my map 
or diagram of September 1822, be correc' P 
In that map, and its description, I repre¬ 
sent the verges to be parallel to the mag¬ 
netic equator, and the ( natural ) climates 
to be parallel to both. If to the above po¬ 
sitions, the most common, though partial 
answer be ottered, namely, that the Atlan¬ 
tic ameliorates the western or northwes¬ 
tern winds reaching Europe, l may then 
further ask, why does not the Pacific pro¬ 
duce a like effect on the west coast of 
America? Although timber is exported ; 
from Norway, perhaps as high north as 
latitude 68°, yet Cook found f w trees 
along the N. W. coast of America beyond 
about the fifty third degree of N. latitude. 
Why do distant objects generally seem 
to loom up, or faintly appear, as if pictur¬ 
ed on the sky about the horizon, when seen 
towards any point of the compass, beyond 
the verge 1 mark, unless the surface there, 
though apparently convex, be really con¬ 
cave? And why may the shores be dis¬ 
covered at the distance of 200 miles, as 
Boss or Tarry has stated to be the case in 
Baffin’s Bay, unless the formation there be 
different from ours? 
Why, in the same regions, may the Sun ' 
be regarded with the naked eye, like the 
Moon ; and why is the sky and the sea of 
a darker color there, as I am well inform¬ 
ed is the case, unless the rays of light are 
weakened by being bent over the verge 1 
describe? 
