Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1846-11-10
Exploring RxpeditiOu--C0ntinued.

as-44@ ~ CHAPTER ~. s9sE3ss GE1tz
Description of the Ma ipes-G Government
delay and escdpe-drfM spectacle
Tn nature-.friends of pedce-getting
ready to fight The first Opportunity theyl
get. @ .e5saaossa'}
My wreck, disastrous as it was to me,
must result greatly to the benefit of man
kind. The discovery of this people adds
an important itemto the geography of our
world, and gives to my expedition pecu-
liar interest. They inhabit that portion
of the globe encircling the North Pole,
and adhere strictly to northern principles
trade with the Esquemaux, and are known
ny the name of Upinenders. .Theirgoy.
eminent Is Qneenarchy, and, like all
travellers who visit foreign courts. il is my
privilege 10 delight the American peaple
with the intelligen nee, that their present
Sovereign is in peculiar circumstance.
Some said it would happen in July, others
thought not until September. The hyeli.
est preparations. were going on, and the
people appeared to be in extacy in antici
patton of the event. 1t was a subject of
exciting discussion in court circles, wheth
er the child's linen should be muskrat or
coon skins, and it was thought the ques-
tion would revolutionize the ministry.
My situation became every day more
hazardous. The whole country was in
arms, and | was obliged to defend myself
by day, and proceed with repairs at night.
On the evening of the seventh day after
my disaster, paid my respects to the
royal court, with the view of leaving on
the following morning. The ladies of
The royal household were engaged in ma
king quantity of small garments, and tie
Queens health would not admit of per.
sonal interview. Earlythe next morning,
| arose. not as at first from valies of yer
dure and bloom, but from realm of snow;
and concluded to ascend above the clouds
to enjoy season of rest, imperiously de-
manded by Ell exhausted, weary, toll.
worn mind and body. As | was in the
vicinity Of the North Pole, and the season
was that ofperpetual night had known
no return of day, except as indicated by
my Chronometer, during my delay. But
Judge of my surprise when, / found, while
below, the clouds all was darkness, and
dreary winter, above them the atmosphere
assumed the temperature of summer
evening, and mellow light, like the COR
geons flush of a golden sunset, gIowed
around me. 1t occurred to me that per.
haps was floating in the luminous ather
of the Aurora Borealis. The sun was
not visible, but bis light, like silvery
bow, encircled the southern horizon: and
shadowy gloom, like the Stygean Shade,
spread its sombre hues over all the earth.
The scene reminded me of that desolate
shore where doomed spirits wander in
ioyless exile, where the light of lurid
lake sheds an eternal paleness, and the
hopeless victims of perfidy and crime,
maddened by despair, dance to the music
of signs, and the clatter of their own
fleshless skeletons.
The air appeared to be in motion, vas
cilating to and fro, like waves rolling to
the shore, breaking and rolling back
Not the slightest breeze was perceptible;
and subsequent observation satisfied me,
that nothing Of the kind is ever known
at the polls. The air at the polls is
troubled, and kept in constant commotion
by the restless heaving Of the vast ocean
OF which it is a part, but like the waters
OF bay, is never swept 10y storms, from
its repose, and dispersed through different
latatudes and distant continents. 1t DOS.
sesses an extreme rarity, and the break.
ing IN upon it, ofheavy surges from with
out, creates a thick vapor or spray, that,
rising up from a region of darkness, is
Illuminated on meeting the sunlight, and
forms those flashes, or waves of light, SO
often seen in the North, called "Northern
lights. If it should be objected, that the
existance of darkness has any thing to do
in causing these northern lights" lot il
be rememheredthatw we see or know every
thing by contrast. There was no neces.
sity for light until every thing was discov.
cred to be in darkness; and we should
never have known what light was, had we
never known Of such thing as darkness.
1t is philosophical, then TO conclude, that
there must exist a darkness, out Uf which
such lights spring as are often seen in
these northern parts. These lights, form.
Cd from single rays, minute scintilations
from capacious fountain, blending in
social fraternities, exert kind of mes
meric magic in removing promiscuous
darkness, human ills, woes and pains; and
establish common brotherhood of inter.
est, intelligence and good feeling.
had made every preparation to rest,
but il appeared impossible to close my
eyes upon a scene of such gloomy mag
nificence and awful grandeur. was
floating in an atmosphere of golden bril-
,liancy, and amid stars of peerless spendor.
Planets of unusual magnitude bespangled
the heavens; and flakes Of snow, playing
upon the surface of the clouds far below,
appeared like sparks of FIRE dancing upon
the bosom Of a boundless ocean. The