Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-07-13

dlttlculty IN gaming three hundred miles
farther than had ever yetbeene explored.
On the 10th Of August, Captain Had
dington reached an island lying be-
tween six and eight degrees north !ati-
tude, and almost entirely hemmed with
immense barriers of ice, there being on
Iva narrow opening at its extreme south
westerncape. From observations made
with the telescope, DR.. Bently suppo-
sed the island to be about hundred
miles in length and seventy in width,
and to have reached within six degrees
Iof the north pole. 1t was inhabited
near the cape by few people who re-
sembled the Gfeenlanders, being rath-
er shorter in stature and more fleshy.
They lived upon seals and white bears,
and dwelt under ground. The sum-
mer here was very short, there being
only twelve days in which vegetation
could grow. The nativescarried hunt
ing implements, such as bows and spears
made Of whale bone, which they used
with great dexterity. They were, how
ever, intolerably stupid, and seldom
crept out Of their burrows except when
hunger compelled them. The coast
was bleak and rocky, and such was the
power of the frost, that the rocks lay
scattered in broken fragments, and the
noise produced by their constant ex-
lplosion, resembled the alternate firing
of battery Of cannon. DR.. Bently
found them to be principally green
stone, trap, and bassaltic. They dis
covered a mountain within 20 miles of
this bleak coast, which they called
Mount Notus. It's altitude was about
three thousand feet, and was ascertain
ed to be volcanic. The island was call
ed Haddington, in honor of this per-
severing navigator; and the cape was
named by DR.. Bently Cape Norland
The only vegetable productions Disco
vered, were a few stinted frs, and spe-
cies Of moss, lichen, and laurel. A
bird resembling the wild goose was oc-
casionally seen, and a quadruped like
the fox. except that its fnr was tiaree
times as long, and thick like a swan s
down, with the fneness and whiteness
Iof the purest ermine. White bears
were very frequent.
Capt. Haddington, not deeming it adj
visable to remain long in this high and
dangerous latitude, pursued his course
homeward as speedily as possible, and
arrived at Falmouth ON the LIST Of Oc-
tober, having obtained proximity of
five degrees nearer the pole than any
navigator ever before had the boldness
to reach, not excepting even Captail
Parry. Both DR.. Bently and Mr.. Colds.
bury made calculations with such accu-
racy as to be perfectly satisfied that
there could be no opening ct the pole,
but that beyond that island there was
one vast bed Of ice, and frozen basin,
surrounding the pole, where the sun is
never seen, its rays being Intercepted
by the mountains, which are constantly
forming by the accumulation Of SHOWS
that never thaw, and are frozen into
marble.
TRUE EDucAT1oN.-If it be essen
tial to the happiness Of each man, that
he should seek first the kingdom, Of
God, IF the command to do this has
been given by the Son Of God himself
mo system Of education can beright,
which does not teach this as the fosin-
|dation and beginning of allother knowl-
edge. It'll vain that we dispute about
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