The Columbian fountain., 1846-01-01
DAYS Without NIGHTS,
AND NIGHTS WITHOUT DAY

AND NIGHTS WITHOUT DAYS.
DIR. Baird is delivering an interesting
course of lectures at Hartfort, Connecticut,
of one of which the Times has the follow
ing notice - ab tAt
There is nothing strikes stranger more
iorcibly, if he visits Sweden at a season of
the year when the days are longest, than
the absence of night. DIR. b. had no con-
ceplion OF it before his arrival He. arrived
at Stockholm, from Gottenburgh, 400 miles
distant, in the morning, and in the afternoon
went to see some friends--had not taken
notes OF time-and returned about mid
night: it was as light as il is here half an
hour before sundown. You could see dis
tinctly. But all was quiet in the streets;
it seemed as if the inhabitants had gone
away, or were dead. No signs of life
stores were closed. The sun in June goes
down al Stockholm little before 10 O'Clock.
There is great illumination all night, as
the sun passes round the earth towards the
north pole, and the relraction Of its rays is
such, that you can read at midnight DR..
b. read letter in the forest near Stockholm,
at midnight, without artificial light. There
is mountain at the head of the Gulf of
Bothnla, where, on the 2lst of June, the
sun does not 60 down at all Travellers 90
up there to see it. A steamboat goes I'm
from Stockholm for the purpose of carry
ing those who are curious to witness the
phenomenon. 1t only occurs one night.
The sun goes down to the horizon; you
can see the whole face Of it, and in five
minutes it begins to rise.
AT the North Cape, latitude 72 degrees.
the sun does not 60 down for several weeks.
In June, it would be about 25 degrees above
the horizon at midnight. The way the
people there know it is midnight, they see
the sun begin to rise. The changes in
those high latitudes, from summer to win
ter, are SO great, that we can have no con-
ception of them at all. In the winter time
the sun disappears and is not seen for six
weeks Then it comes and shows its face.
Afterwards, it remains for ten, fifteen, or
twenty minutes, and then descends. And
finally, 1t does not set at all, but makes al
most circle round the heavens. Dr. Baird
asked how they managed in regard to hired
persons, and what they considered a day2
- .ouiu hot ooy, Jul supposed lney worked
by the hour, and twelve hours would be
considered a days work. Birds and ami
mails take their accustomed rest at their
usual hours, The Doctor did not know
how they learned the time, but they 90 to
rest whether the sun goes down or not.
The hens take to the trees about z O'Clock.
P M, and stay there until the sun is we'll
up in the morning, and the people get into
this habit of late rising, too. The first
morning Dr. Baird awoke in Stockholm, he
was surprised to see the sun shining into
his room. He looked at his watch. and
found it was only 3 o'clock; and the next
time he awoke it was O'Clock, but there
were no, persons in the streets The peo-
pie are not in the habit of rising so soon
The Swedes in the cities are not very in
dustrlous, owing, probably, to the climate
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The Hon HENRY Clay left Ashland a
few days since for New Orleans, on private
and professional business. He expects to be
gone several months and NAV nrobohI,, 80.