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enable all those who have not seen 
nia p> to test my questions by local facts, 
1 here repeat, that I mark the Northern 
Verge, on a map of the Globe, as follows, 
tiz : Beginning at latitude 68° in Norway, 
aiaci proceeding on a line trending south of 
west, down to about latitude 50° in the 
Pacific, thence trending north of west, pro¬ 
gressively, in like manner, to the point of 
departure, abou latitude 68° in Norway, 
so as to include within the verge the great¬ 
er part of Iceland and Greenland, and a 
part of Labrador and Hudson Bay, which 
line traverses the N. YV. coast, about, lati¬ 
tude 5£° or 53°, am] crosses Kamschatka 
about latitude 54°, and proceeds so as to 
include within the sphere the greater part 
of Liberia, notwithstanding Siberia, Green¬ 
land, Iceland, &c. are apparently al!,(ow-| 
ing to refraction, as I contend,) without the ' 
sphere; being situated between where I 
mark the real and apparent verge. 
Why does this sloping line, on which I 
locate the verge, every where mark, (with 
but slight exception,) the termination of 
the climate where trees will grow; also, 
the climate where grain, grass, and cu'ina¬ 
ry vegetables are produced,between which 
line, and the North Sea, or Ocean, in Asia 
—and in America, between the same line 
and the" Barren Ground,” only such ani- 
mals as feed on moss, or animal food, exist 
—as far as I can learn—I say, why do 
such extraordinary facts exist, which facts 
so weil correspond with my Theory as 
they do, unless my principles are well 
founded P 
Why do extraordinary cold winters oc¬ 
cur in Europe every where south of the line 
I mark for the verge, simultaneously with 
extraordinary mild ones, in Greenland and 
Iceland, and vice versa, as I have hereto¬ 
fore shown to be the case in one of my for¬ 
mer numbers, unless the line I define di¬ 
vides the outer from the inner regions? 
Why did a volcano, in the Andes, pro- 
produce an irruption of water abounding 
with fish P And, why was one of the ex¬ 
traordinary earthquakes at Lisbon simulta¬ 
neously attended by a great disturbance 
in the waters of Lake Ontario—as Hum¬ 
boldt states, unless a mid-plane space ex¬ 
ists r* 
