about 10 onl yee. interval, it will be As these spots appear periodically, with interesting to determine beyond doubt whether these periodic appearances have anything to do with the condition of the globe we inhabit. So- many phenomenal disturbances have happened during the years of maximum sun spots that many Scientists assert that the same causes which produce the spots on the sun have an effect upon this planet. Professor Jevons in his interesting research went so far as to prove by analogy the connection between the years of maximum and minimum sun spots and the years of commercial depression and financial crisis, going back as far as the Great South Sea Bubble in 1721 and bringing it in periods of eleven years to 1882. Since then the years 1892 and 1893 with their maxima of spots have been unparalleled in their commercial depression all over the world—but this is only indirectly within the province of the sailor, for however prosperous trade is or numerous the sun spots at neaps it doesn't seem to raise the salaries of certificated officers who are instrumental in carrying the earth's produce, which the sun assists to grow, What interests our community is the confidence of "sun spots" with cli-A tic and atmospheric changes, A slight description of the sun itself will not be out of place, just to bring the orb to the horizon of the mind's eye; but being wu inexhaustible subject the writer will only touch the atmosphere, so as not to burn his fingers.
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