The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . AKCTIC MOONLIGHT. forms a vast circle, embracing perhaps hundreds of thousands of years, roundanother star, and that we arc constantly entering new regions of space untrav- THE ARCTIC LANDS. 31 elled by our earth before. We come from the unknown, and phiiige into theunknown ; but so much is certain, that our solar system rolls at present througha space but tl)inly peopled with stars, and there is no reason to doubt that itmay once have wandered through one of those celestial provi
The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . AKCTIC MOONLIGHT. forms a vast circle, embracing perhaps hundreds of thousands of years, roundanother star, and that we arc constantly entering new regions of space untrav- THE ARCTIC LANDS. 31 elled by our earth before. We come from the unknown, and phiiige into theunknown ; but so much is certain, that our solar system rolls at present througha space but tl)inly peopled with stars, and there is no reason to doubt that itmay once have wandered through one of those celestial provinces where, asthe telescope shows us, constellations are far more densely clustered. But,as every star is a blazing sun, the greater or lesser number of these heavenlybodies must evidently have a proportionate influence upon the temperature ofspace; and thus we may suppose that during the miocene period our earth,beino- at that time in a populous sidereal region, enjoyed the benefit of ahiher temperature, which clothed even its poles with verdure. In the courseof ao-es the sun conducted his herd of jj
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