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Updated: June 15, 2025
'And to vere has Mr Cohenlupe gone? 'He hasn't been civil enough to leave his address. I fancy he don't want his friends to have to trouble themselves by writing to him. Nobody seems to know what's become of him. 'New York, suggested Mr Croll. 'They seem to think not. They're too hospitable in New York for Mr Cohenlupe just at present. He's travelling private.
Croll has urged, the waters of the Gulf Stream do not warm the shores of Europe by direct contact, but by warming the anti-trade-winds, which subsequently blow across the continent. And everywhere the heat accumulated by water becomes effectual in modifying climate, not so much by direct radiation as by diffusion through the medium of the air.
The consideration of these various facts impresses the mind almost in the same manner as does the vain endeavour to grapple with the idea of eternity. Nevertheless this impression is partly false. Mr. Croll, in an interesting paper, remarks that we do not err "in forming too great a conception of the length of geological periods," but in estimating them by years.
Croll brought together a mass of evidence to support the view, that, at epochs of considerable eccentricity, the hemisphere of which the winter, occurring at aphelion, was both intensified and prolonged, must have undergone extensive glaciation; while the opposite hemisphere, with a short, mild winter, and long, cool summer, enjoyed an approach to perennial spring.
But now, Mr. Croll, in a series of admirable memoirs, has attempted to show that a glacial condition of climate is the result of various physical causes, brought into operation by an increase in the eccentricity of the earth's orbit. All these causes tend towards the same end; but the most powerful appears to be the indirect influence of the eccentricity of the orbit upon oceanic currents.
Croll had signified his intention of leaving Melmotte's service, and would therefore probably enter some rival service, and thus become an enemy to his late master. There could be no reason why Croll should keep the secret. Even if he got no direct profit by telling it, he would curry favour by making it known. Of course Croll would tell it.
The MS. from which Vindelinus of Spire published his edition, was in the Library of St Mark's, Venice, but, according, to Croll and Exter, it is no longer to be found.
'I vill not be back in the Lane, Mr Melmotte. 'Not back at the office, Croll? 'I tink not; no. De leetle money coming to me, you will send it. Adieu. And so Mr Croll took his final leave of his old master after an intercourse which had lasted twenty years.
The crushing blow to him, so said Herr Croll, had been the desertion of Cohenlupe, that and the sudden fall in the value of the South Central Pacific and Mexican Railway shares, consequent on the rumours spread about the City respecting the Pickering property.
The most recent glacial epoch was placed by Dr. Croll about 200,000 years ago, when the eccentricity of the earth's orbit was 3·4 times as great as it is now. At present a faint representation of such a state of things is afforded by the southern hemisphere.
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