The Polar Sea Subsiding

If a writer in the English periódica], Saure, ia correct in his views, the opsn Polar Sea, unless discovered soon, will oxist no more. Land is said to bo rising every whero botwcon tho Polo and the fifty-seventh pai-allel, and the groatcst raovement is at tho Polo itself. Some intoresting facts are quoted in support of this thoory. Pliny says that Scandinavia is an archipo.lago, and spoaks of bold seamen who had circumna'vigatod the group of islands. Ptoleniy confirms him. Celsius said, in the seventponth contury, that Norway was rising at the rate of forty inches a year. Sir Charles Lyell in dorsos tho theory. The water-level in tho Gulf of Bothnia falls ono foot every fifteen years. Near Gefle. thoro aro low pastures where old inen remember seeing boats afloat. Near Stockholm, soventy foct above tho sea, the remains of shellifish, Ldentical with tho present coast speicies, aro found. At Soduleige, ninety foot abovo high-water, there is a bed of sand which contains somo wrocked boats and an old anchor. In the interior of Spitzonbergen skelotous of wh;iles have been unearthed forty feet above sea-lovel. Tho fishcrman say that the land has risen so much that the shallowness of the water has driven away tho right whale, which, onco abundant, is now rare ly seen. On the Pacific the shore abont Bohring's Straits are low and flat ; but, a mile or two back, thcro are ranges of bluffs, parallel with the coast, and containing inmiuierablo shellg of littoral species. If the theory is true, it oiïoig us a curious case of compensation. W uile the ocean is washing awuy Groat Britain, and Franco, and Holland, and Now England, way to the North tho continents ave encroaching on tho soa. Tho ouly pity is, that the process cannot be reversed, iiid Neptune enriched at tho expenso of the frozon North, and to the gain of the moro habitablo South.