Length Of The Day In Different Countries

We are now panting benpath the raya of a torrid snn, nnd the fruits of the enrlhare rejoicing in hislight and beat. The days have attoined their greatest length, which is nearly fifteen hours between sunriseand sunset, in ihis latitude. Much mure light, however, now falls to the lot of higfyer climes. Jn the norlh of Norway the days are nearly twentyfour hours in durution, the un scarcely setting at all; and we are assured that et this time of the year, in the environs of Hudson's bny, the snn, wlien riing, generally oppearsto have a tai)! In Spiizbergen it is nearly a month sinre the sun lat t 'roso, and hé wil! continue to shine yet two month s UDinterruptedly, nnd wlien he eets wül liardly be Been again lor the reyt of the yen: ; the light of that región bring furnishad during his absence by the nurora hojealis. The north point of Nova Zembla luis perpptiml day froni May 1 to August 12, and there is perpetual darkneás in that i.vlmid from Novenibpr 3 to Ft'bruary 9, relieved only by the Northern l'ght. The invigoraiing effbcts ofthesunupon some ofour plants are perceptible in twenty-fou hours, bnr. in Siberia, the summer heats though short, nre so sudden and powerfu that, in the neigbborhood of Yakutsk, the growth of corn and other vegetables i.s almos visible to the naked eye. But in the rieighborhood of the f roze ocean it is in vain tha solar rays continue night and day to in fluence a soil condemed to elernal frost. In the middle of the long day of the polar circle n rmrth wind is sufficwnt to cover the watert, with a thin ernst of ice, and to give a yellow and red tinge to the leaves and plants. The vegetal ion is often'limitcd to a few dnys, anr n thnt short interval the plants blossoin am form seed. When we reach the pole there is but one day and one night in the year, of six months each. The power of the sun, whose rays fall obliqueiy upon the earth, is not sufficient to warm the t-eeds of plants into eermination, and vegetation wholly ceases fór several dngreps prevjous to reachin the pole. - Indepd, the surfnce is not t ha wed to the debth of more than me or two feet, in all that long summer day. Who does not shudder at th horrors of such a rerOn, abnndoned by ihe sun! In the latitudé of St. Petersburg and Tobolt.k, whioh is many degrees south" the mercury congeals in winter end bccomes malleable, whüeat the same time, in the plair.s of Africn, the lieat reaches 189 degrees Fahren - heit. We who retreat frorn the rnysofthe snn at 90 degrees, rrmy imagine his blistering heat nt more than twire thut power.In f lic sou! hem iiemispliere thiè order is re versed. The inhabitants of New Hollond are nov in 'he depth of winter. Tliee the north the north wind, and the south is the TcoJd, and the inhnbitnnts are expelHnfr t.'ie frigid blasts of the seneon witli fircs of myrtle vood-for in tliüt elimo, so dreadful to Hritish felonp, the huml)lo6t house ia fitted p with cpdar, tuul the Jots fenced with mahoffnny. nnd myrtle trees ars burnt for firewood!