Why is the country, beyond such a de¬ 
clining verge as I mark, more generally 
cut up by arms of the sea, or narrow fresh 
water lakes, with very bold shore, than is 
the case on this side ot it, as I am taught 
by my reading is the fact, unless the two 
regions exist under circumstances more 
widely different than the existence of an 
entire sphere would be likely to justify or 
produce? 
Why do timber, bears, wolves, and fox¬ 
es, drift on the north coast of Iceland ; and, 
why is it, that a man of Norway cannot 
bend a Laplander’s bow—-as Brooks’ Ga- ; 
zetteer states—unless it be that such tim¬ 
ber and animals are drifted out from more 
temperate regions beyond and within ; and, 
that the Laplander, situated within,is more 
compactly enveloped by a highly compres¬ 
sed atmosphere, or, is otherwise firmer 
compacted by a more forceful gravity in 
the concave, than the Norwegian is with¬ 
out jL„ 
Why does the north, both in Asia and 
America, pour forth vast herds of rein deer, 
which, migrating from the more northern 
regions, proceed almost as far south “ iff 
the months of March and April,” as the 
! verge l mark? And why are those deer 
with their young, led back (by instinct, 
hunger, or habit,) over the ice of the then 
frozen seas and lakes, when the snows be¬ 
gin to fall in October; unless a more tem¬ 
perate climate exists some where beyond 
those cold regions they leave ? And, how 
can a more temperate climate exist, (espe-! 
daily in winter) any where towards the 
axis, if the earth be a solid globe, or the 
sphere be entire ? 
Why is it, that, beyond the verge I mark, 
it is found that that course which the mi¬ 
grating reindeer pursue, and which the 
north point of the needle regards, and on 
which the most prevailing ground-swells 
advance, is (apparent) northeastwardly in 
Asia, and northwestwardly in America, 
unless it be, that the slope of the great plane 
of the verge, and the consequent curvature, 
or deviation of the meridians of longitude, 
and the winding of the parallels of latitude, 
are such as I describe? 
