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 fred
them off! Bang! bang! bangl No won-
der them Chatohospaafellows never come
back! Satan, hisse couldn't done it no
better, eft he had been there, in the way Of
racket and Mise!
Daddy Biggs now took long breath,
and longer drink.
"Boys," he continued, 81 got them fel-
ler's fish, and a two-gallon Jug o. sperre,s,
and | lhrowed their guns in the river, be-
sides givin' EN- them the alI-gortiest 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
LANo.-lt is known that the anliquarians
of England have been zealously pursuing
their researches of Greenland, and they
have thus far proved of exceeding interest.
A contemporary observes that the most ex-
traoFdinary fact aboni Greenland is the
wonderful change of climate it has under-
gone. Barren soils have been reclaimed
b. 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 en- rocks, mountains
covered with sf.s., and ice, and vallies
filled with glacierS-alihough It's coast,
now lined with foes Of ice, and chequer-
ed with icebergs OF immense size, was
once easily accessible, and It's soil was
fruitful, and well repaid the cul;iyator of
tie earth. This country was discovered
by the Scandnavians, towards the cluse
of the tenth century, and Il settlement was
effected on the eastern coast in the year
9S2, BY company Of adventures from
Iceland, under the command Of Eric the
Red. Emigrents aocked thither 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 it bid fair TO 60 on and prosper. That
the climate must have been mild aud The
soil fruitful, we gather from the fact that
in 400 there was not less than $50 vii
lagos, IL parishes, and two monasteries,
and for 400 years there was constant pre-
fitable mercantile intercourse with the
Danish provinces and Europe, but in l406
every thing changed-a wall or ice bar
rler arose along the whole line of coast,
and no landing could be effected, and up
TO the seventeenth century the whole APP
proach to the country was blocked BY in
sarmonutable barriers OF ice-vegetaiion
was destroyed, and all ves,iges of It's for
mer inhabitants are gone--parts of hous-
es, churches, &c, remain, but the inhabi-
tants have all persisted by cold Il would
require no very vivid Imagination TO 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
theF hdIoouiS pSCdIe permanently OloCk-
ed with Icebergs, and the genial rays of
the sun were obseured by fogs--when the
winters became for the first time intense.
y rigid, checrless, and dreary-when the
Summers were also cold and the soil un-
prodnctiye--when the mountains were no
longer crowned with forests, but covered
with snow and ice throughout the year,
and the valleys with glaciers-when the
wonted inhabitants of the woods and the
waters were destroyed or exiled BY the Sc
verify of the weather, and their places
perhaps supplied BY monsters of huge
and frightfu! character.