| Show A AN isch ITCH OF uain rain of as i the cne mi ATLA atna TIC lieutenant maury in in hiis fus physical Y of 0 the sea computes com utes the effect of a single it n 01 0 of rain rain falling upon the tile atlantic ocea the atlantic Atlin tic includes an area of twenty f five ive millions of square miles suppose an inch of rain to fail upon only one gifth filth of this vast expanse it would weigh says our author three hundred and sixty thousand millions of tons and the fait sait which as water it held in in soli soki tion IP in the sea and which when whery the water was taken up as vapor was left aft behind to 10 disturb the tile c n weighed sixteen mill millions loas ioas more tons or nearly twice as much ai aj all the ships in in the worm world rould could carry at a cargo each it might fall in a ad dy but occupy what time lime it might in in alliff fallig falli alli g fj the rain is 13 calculated to exert so much w oc kiich ivic itic is is conceivably i c great in in di the tha eq aili barium of the otean airall the water discharged by the MISSIES api river dur during m the tho year were taken up in in one mighty measure and cast into the ocean at one effi effort arf art it would not make a greater disturbance in in uie hie eq of the sea than would the fall of rain rain supposed and yet so ge gentle gentie antle are the operations of nature that movements so vast are ex i |
