. , and the similar currents I 
vai>i' : S nJ j Cochrane, auct certain 
mentioned - e vailin S in the North 
Russian exp ^ ‘ est J, ar( lly, both progress out- 
Si ' a ! inte St dtrect manner practicable, to- 
wards, m tlu - - y or> i n other words, 
wards, it not wn ^"towards our temperate 
outwards and do ^ a recent publics- 
regions ? Cap • , tmmoses the northwest 
s'Krsii S'f.ft / 
that the water of the Noith sc . 
any other seas. Now, such coaid uoc be <h. 
r I'ttPSa s5Mw.«* 
n ., ri lively both narrow and shallow . and LI. 
some Russian Journalists contend that st is on y 
the m tuth of a deep bay, and, a* well a 3 1 J 
irember Cook has not treated of any notable 
current * there, whilst Captain Parry treats o 
Zrpetual currents, which are very general beyond 
Ballio’s bay. Parry found that the current in 
one particular strait run at the rate oi four miles 
As the northeast winds of Siberia and the 
northwest, winds of Hudson’s and Baffin’s boys 
are, 1 learn, similar in their general character, j 
and as ground swells prevail most from the north ¬ 
east in the north seas oi Asia and hurope, and 
most from the northwest in Baffin’s and Hudson's 
bavs; and, as the rein deer of Siberia proceeu 
northeastwardly in October, and those of Hud¬ 
son’s bay, at die same season, proceed northwest¬ 
wardly, does it not follow, that the previous sug¬ 
gestion, offered in the last paragraph, is well- 
founded, seeing that it is propped by such corrobo¬ 
rating facts and circumstances as are enumerated 
in this paragraph r 
The direction of the magnetic needle, and cf 
the aurora borealis, generally seem to afford fur¬ 
ther corroboration. 
Are there not hundreds ol facts, that can be 
cited in a similar manner, in favor oi the new 
system P The writer of these remarks says 
there are, and that he will cite them particularly 
and pubii ly, as soon as he has time, patronage, 
or means, s fficient to enable him to do so. ^ 
