Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-04-09

retched higher than the trees, II spread
out to the log whar the guns was, and fired
them off! Bang! bang bang No won.
der them Chatohospa fellows never come
back! Satan, hisself, couldn't done il no
better, ct he had been there, in the way Of
racket and Mise!
Daddy Biggs now took long breath,
and longer drink.
"Boys," he continued, ! got them fell
ler's fish, and a two.gallon Jug o. sperrets,
and throwed their guns in the river, be-
sides giyin' EN- them the all-goriiest scare
they ever had; and they amt been back
sence, which hope they never will, for
its oudacious the way the river folks is
posed upon. And, now, boys, that's my
scrape ? SO less take another drink, look
at the hooks, and then lay down."
INTERESTING INVESTIGATION IN GREEN
LAND. lit is known that the antiquarians
of England have been zcalously pursuing
their researches Of Greenland, and they
have thus far proved Of exceeding interest
A cotcmporary observes that the most ex-
,raordihary fact about Greenland is the
wonderful change OF climate il has under
gone. Barren soils have been reclaimed
by emigration and industry, and cold eli,
mate changed into warmer ATTITUDES by
clearing the woods and letting in the rays
Of the sun, but we have no instance on
record of settlements originally in warm
climates, and fruitful soils becoming in
centuries cold, bleak, and barren, and yet
such has been the case with Greenland
The country, although now consisting Of
little else than barren rocks, mountains
covered with snow and ice, and valies
filed with glacers--allhough It's coast,
now lined with foes Of ice, and chequer.
ed with icebergs Of immense size, was
once easily accessible, and its soil was
fruitful, and well repaid the cultyator Of
the earth. This country was discovered
by the Scandinavians, towards the close
Of The tenth century, and settlement was
effected on the eastern coast in the year
052, by a company of adventures from
Iceland, under the command of Eric the
Red. Emgrants Aucked thilher from
Iceland and Norway, and the germs
Of European enterprise and civilization
appeared on different parts Of the coast
A colony was established in Greenland,
and il bid fair to 90 on and prosper. That
the climate must have been mild and tho
soil fruitful, we gather from The fact that
ia l400 there was not less Than 100 VII
lagos, IL parishes, and TWO monasteries,
and for 400 years there was constant pro-
ftable mercantile intercourse with the
Danish provinces and Europe, but in l406
evory thing changed--a wall or ice bar
rier arose along the whole line Of coast,
and no landing could be effected, and up
to the seventeenth century the whole ap-
proach to the country was blocked by in.
surmonutable barriers OF ice---vegetation
was destroyed, and all vesliges Of its for.
rner inhabitants are gone--paris Of hous-
es, churches, &C., remain, but the inhabi-
tants have all persisted by cold. Il would
require no very vivid Imagination 10 pic.
ture the appalling sense Of destruction,
which bleached the features and chilled
the hearts Of those unhappy colonists when
they began 10 realize their forlorn condi-
ton, when the cold rapidly increasing and
their harbours became permanently block
cd with cebergs, and the genial raysof
the sun we're obscured by fogs-- when the
winters became for the first time intense
y rigid, checrless, and dreary--when the
summers we're also cold and the soil On.
productiye--whcn the mountains we're no
longer crowned with forests, but covered
with snow and ice throughout the year,
and the valleys with glaciers--when the
woned inhabitants Of the woods and the
waters we're destroyed or exiled by the se-
verify Of tho weather, and their places
perhaps supplied BY monsters Of "a huge
and Ifiqhllu. character.