Returning now to the heading of this article, it remains to be shown that the appearances of sun spots coincide with cli-marie changes upon this earth. The observations during the eclipses show that there must be a periodic increase and diminution of the sun's light and heat; and from this it is argued that this planet is undoubtedly affected, the heat of the sun penetrating far down into the bowels of the earth. The pressure of our air is due wholly to the earth's attraction and would be increased or diminished if the attractive force of the earth were increased or diminished—if through the disturbances in the solar atmosphere the sun increased its heat-giving powers which, penetrating more into our earth caused an increased attraction to the atmosphere, This would naturally upset its equilibrium and cause the changes that we are subject to during the prevalence of sun spots "—witness the heat of 1872, of 1883 and now the heat (not confined to England) of 1893, and these were years of
eruption of Krakatoa, the writer observed maximum i In 1883, just before the cluster of "sun spots," whilst crossing the Indian Ocean, It might or it might not have had anything to do with the eruption the coincidence was there all the same.
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