Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1828-04-25

from East to West Greenland where they are found
in vast numbers. Captain Franklin, on the shores
OF the Arctic ocean, describes the seals sporting
In shoals like porposes and islands equally album
dant In them, may be hoped to be ed in the
Antarctic seas. The land animal fur trade, though
not hitherto much encouraged, would be the source
OF great wealth. few spirited capitalists with
strong and we'll situated factories on the North
West Coast, would soon take no small portion ofthis
immense trade, now monopolized by the Hudson
Bay Company. The ivory trade is becoming i'm
portant, and will be more SO when the sea-eephant
IS hunted for oil, as. from the increasing consump-
ton ofthe coarser kind of that article, is likely
to be the case.
&c The feather trade (says Mr.. Reyholds) has
not as yet been followed in those seas as it might
have been but, from the immense quantity of sea
fowl in those regions, it is certain, that the best
feathers might be obtained, and in the greatest
abundance. Some of the beds brought from the
Northwest Coast nearly equal in quality to the
elder down beds of Russia. The demand for feath-
ers Is great and constantly increasing in this
try. The finest quilts might be obtained in pursu-
ing this trade, and the demand for them is great
and constantly increasing. The manner of prepar-
ing them, as the Dutch prepare them, might easily
be taught to those engaged in the business and in
stead OF paying near half million of dollars
year to Holland and Russia, and other countries,
market and others.
The articles which we export for this trade are
now all within ourselves. Rice, tabacco, rum,
whiskey, blankets, coarse wooens, cottons, CALI
Goes, the ordinary kind of cutlery, and trivial jew
ellery, and agricultural utensils, and some ARTICLES
of household furniture, will soon find market at
| the Sandwich islands,
| He adds some calculations of the amount Of ton
mage engaged in the navigation of these seas Its
| oh,bI lass 81
There are in the southern polar regions, million
and half ofsquare miles wholly unknown and for
aught that known, countries corresponding to lap
land, Norway and Siberia, may exist in the Southern
Hemisphere, which it is the object Of this expedi-
ton to explore.
/ Mediocrity 1t has been well remarked by the
sententlous Seneca that man may rest as warmly.
and be sheltered as well under matched as under
gilded roof, and it is maxim, also, Of O., obuis,
of Lindos, one of the sages of Greece. that
| state of mediocrty is the best condition of life.
/ Without having recourse to the authority Of an
cient writer's, every man is aware that but little is
necessary for the purposes of happiness, and that an
accumulation of riches is usually accompanied by an
augmentation of care. Yet of all the wishes that
agitate the human heart there is none more gene
rally INDUCED than the desire of wealth and Of the
evils which it deprecates. is avoided with great
er eagerness, or endured with less forttude, than
poverty. That the latter state is to be Stunned, on
account of the complicated sorrows and caamities
|inseparaby connected with it, none will deny; but
he who is removed beyond the reach Of necessity.
who has all the demands of reason gratifed cannot
be considered poor and experience has clearly
shown that every stepbeyond this is removal from
happiness.
1t will generally be found by those who examine
into the validity of the complaints utter against
poverty, that the evil is seated in their minds, not
in their condition and that an increase of fortune
would not lessen. but augment their nfelicity. To
attempt to shun by moderate acquisition owealth.
the thousand vexatons and annoyances that infest
state Of utter poverty is reasonable and correct but
i to spend life in the accumulation of golden heaps,
u which not the fictitious wants of fashion and
e folly dssipate, is perversion of time that de-
e mands the apprehension of philosophy. The sea
man who prepares for the vcisstudes of the ocear
+ by supplying his bark with the sails and rigging
is which, in the of storm he will require, acts
a wisely but he who should crowd his vessel witt
a. stores that no exigence could make necessary ant
i load it with provisions more than he could hope Il
y consume. would be but defeating the object of hi
voyage by retarding his progress with unnecessar
Is membranes
l. The attainment of wealth, like intoxcatin
draughts, creates fever of the mind, a thirst q
re SOUL more and hore Unsuitable with each successiv
to acquisition To him who is toing up the ascent q
q riches, new prospect IS opened from every eeva
il ton: "Alps On Alps arise" each more aurin
than the last, and each seeming to be the termna
10 ton of the journey. But there is no termination
d. the mind refuses to be satisfied and when all is at
lie tanned that it can accomplish, like Alexander,
III signs for more worlds to conquer. "Look" says a
lie accent Latin writer Into the lives of Cyrus ant
ID Cambyses, and the whole Persian line, and you vii
ry not find one man of them all, who died contente
is with what he had acquired" The same writer re
"a marie in another Mace that the happness of mai
e. is not to be estimated by the dust Of his retnue
rs the highway for that the despised footman often
s. times enjoys true felicity, than the prince il
s. his chariot.
g, 1t does not require much depth Of observation t
re learn, from the counenances of men, to what elias