If they go there by instinct, they merely do what is credited to the
realm of life, considered lower in the scale of thoughts than man;
but if by exploration and reason, then man must take a lower scale in
calculation than the goose. To conclude this point. If birds live on
vegetation, there must be an abundant supply of fresh water to produce
it. If they live on fish, there must be the same sufficiency of fresh
water in which to breed, feed, and live. If the birds breed, they must
have hospitable shores on which to dwell and rest, and favoring skies
to contribute to their various wants in order to exist.
Their instincts or reason will never take them where the conditions
will not admit of food and drink, rest, shelter, and protection.
One other conclusive evidence that our icebergs are not formed by the
breaking off from the terminals of glaciers is the fact of frequently
finding them in midocean carrying such passengers as wolves, foxes,
white bear, and other specimens of Arctic animals. The solidity of the
iceberg is much against the glacial origin, the glacier being made up
of a conglomerate mass formed by snow, rain and spring waters, so much
so as to be impossible to keep intact to any great bulk. The formation
of the iceberg in its method must be a solid mass.
IV.
GULF STREAM.
The first witness from the interior will be the Gulf Stream, the most
phenomenal stream of water known to the Earth. This great outlet,
authorities tell us, is the result of waters rushing around from the
Caribbean Sea through the Gulf of Mexico and out through the Strait of
Florida, thus giving force enough to be manifest for more than three
thousand miles to the coast of Ireland to give her the climate that
christened her the Emerald Isle; from Ireland and the British Isles,
its influence is felt to the coast of Norway.
The water is much warmer than at other points after leaving the Bahamas
with different marine conditions, such as containing no jelly fish,
or showing sparkling waters by night and being always avoided by the
whales and other tenants that are in adjoining waters. It is also
claimed by those who have sailed many times through it that the color
of the water is so different as to be quickly noticeable as vessels
enter the Stream. How such a stream can originate with such force in
a reservoir like the Atlantic, connected around through the Caribbean
Sea and returning to itself, is as obscure to the writer’s mind as to
how a man can succeed in lifting himself in a bushel basket. A man that
can adopt this conclusion ought to apply his energies to developing a
machine for perpetual motion.
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