Show the open polar sen the open tolar Polar J olar sea must be discover decover ed soon it if at all at least so argues a writer in nature au an E english periodical who believes the sea will soon cease ceabe to exist land nind is ia said to be rising everywhere between the pole and we fifty fafty seventh parallel aud and the greatest movement Is ia at the pole itself some interesting facts are quoted in support of this theory pliny said that scandinavia was an a and spoke of bold seamen who had circum navigated the group of islands ptolemy confirmed the statement Cole coie kelecius Ce lecius cius said raid in the seventeenth century that AY norway was rising at the rate of 0 forty inches a year sir charles lyell in borses the theory the water level in the gulf of bochnia falls one foot every fifteen years near geale there are low pas pai pastures tures where old men remember seeing boats afloat near stockholm seventy feet above the level of the sea the remains of shell fish identical with the present coast species are found A ninety feet above high water there is ia a bed of sand band which contains some wrecked boats and an old anchor in the gen skeletons of whales have been unearthed above sea level the fian flan ermen say that the land hus has risen so GO much that the shallowness shallow nebs nees of the water has driven away the right whale which once abundant is now rarely seen on the pacific the shores around Behring straits are low and fla fia but a mile or two back there are ranges of bluffs ps parallel with the coast and containing J innumerable shells odthe of tho the I 1 littoral species it if the theory is true it offers us a curious case of compensation while the ocean oceania is washing away great britain france trance holland and new england away to the north the continents are encroaching op on the bea ees the only thing to regret is that the process cannot be reversed and neptune enriched at the expense of the frozen north and to the gain of the moie more habitable south ex |