| Show an opera S fx ascii in ia he b north remarkable differences occur or cur in tha seasons reasons of the arctic regions zo so that at certain times as happened last year all the chai channels inels of the northern seas are am filled and choked with floating ice at the breaking up of winter while at other tim times esthe the same channels channel sare are comparatively free and ana bul 1 little ice is seen along the tracks of the jho tr transatlantic steamers eto amera it is a most interesting fact that similar vicissitudes vicissitude 3 evidently occur in the arctic and antarctic regions of the tha planet mars the telescope shows that vast rast fields of snow enow exist around ahn polea of mars extending when it is wi al ter at either of those poles and contracting when it is summer there but the polar snows of mars mar appear to be noticeably tice ably less extensive in some winter seasons than in others so BO that we might fairly expect to find there if we could visit that planet corresponding differ enchain aces in the amount of ice carried toward the equator at the tha end of successive winters our arctic navigators take advantage of such open seasons an aa present ap pars to be whenever they canto can to penetrate farther toward the north pole it is perhaps fortunate for the increase increate 0 of our knowledge of the arctic regions that lieutenant peary and his party who started for northern green and last year are now in the far north they may bring back most interesting aa accounts co un ts of the condition of things there and perhaps be able to throw some light upon the cause of the remarkable variations in the quantity of icebergs and ice fields that come 11 floating out of those ray mysterious regions in different f feea js ong sons youths companion |
