Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-06-08

away, and 1t looked like evening a coming
down.
Presently felt some ore nudging me on
the side, and looked up and see the doctor
looking me in the face as turned nv head
| can see the look as was on his face now
His eyes were open and staring; the top of
his face (for his cap had fell Off was all white,
excepting two blue spots on his cheeks, but his
chin was as black as SCOT. He was trying to
say something TO me with his mouth open wide
as if he was hollering. After bit heard
sort of whisper, which made my blood run cold.
Where is Bill was what he said, and
Where's the riae!' 1t flashed over me all a.
once, the sound Id heard, and the screech
follering it, and brought swimminess sgain.-
felt him moving up, and caught hold of him
just as he was topping over into the water
I've shot him. says he, a trying 10 go loose, ;
and sure enough he'd a thrown hisself in, if |
hadn't got my legs again him, as it were, to
keep him on the ice. There was the mark of
the powder from the pan of the rifle he'd been
lying on, all over his breast and making the
black mark on his chin. 1t had gone off as we
was jerked from the iceberg, and must have
shot poor Bill.
I've most done, gentlemen, continued
Ben, after short pause. The 'citement of
saving him reused me bit, and looked out,
for it was clear enough by this time, and there
was the ship mile astern of us, all becalmed
and with boat alongside. l managed to give
hail, after trying good many times AT
last they seed US and fetched us off pretty near
dead beat They cruised about, ever so long,
a looking for poor Bill, but found nothing Of
him. -F
Ben was evidently affected, and we were all
silent for some tine. poured him out a tum-
bier of port with trembling hand, and asked
him how the doctor Jared after.
'WeIl, SIR said Ben, &c he was dreadfully
cut up and had kind of fever on him, and
talked and raved like mad He 60, better
afore we arrived home, and was only melan-
choly like. | heard tell he fell into heap Of
money. Anyhow, know as he behaved hand
some 10 two little uns Bill had left behind him
with ne'er mother. He talked good deal
to me during the v'yage, and | found about a
week after we'd got to port, that he'd settled
E100 year on my poor old mother, which is
the only creatnr in this world as has to care
for, and for which hope as God will bless
him, said Ben, with fine honest tear in his
eye, and taking up his cap with Thank you,
kindly, gentlemen for listening to my yarn,
he left the cabin.
The captain was fast asleep, and we all
thought for some time over the tale we had
heard; till at last, one Of the passengers broke
the silence by asking the doctor how he accoun-
led for the loss of the boat, and the violent
emotion of the iceberg.
Easily enough said he. The Gulf
stream, as you are doubtless aware, runs
northward from the Gulfof Mexico long and
winding course of 5000 miles. It's northern
most point is just above where Ben met with
his adventure, and there it is joined by two
other streams running southwark. and called
the Hudson's Bay and Arctic currents. These
float down icehergs into the main stream, 9th
erwise they do not usually come far south as
lat. AZ deg, though they have been seen in 40
deg. Now the water of the Gulf:stream is
from deg. TO II deg. (accordiDg to Bagden)
warmer than the temperature Of the sea. In
deed, Lieutenant Maury says that 'the quanti-
ty of heat discharged over the Atlantic from
the waters Of the Gulf-stream in winters
day would be sufficient 10 raise the tempera-
ture of the whole column of atmosphere that
rests upon France and The British Isles from
the freezing point to summer heat J"
1t is evident, therefore, that an iceberg get
ting into this warmer current must melt very
rapidly and The current made by the warm
water being attracted, as it were, TO the mass
Of ice under the surface, has been known 10
produce sort Of suoinn power To some
such cause ! imagine that the disappearance Of
the boat must have been due. Ben's explana.
tion Of the cracking Of the iceberg was in all
probability the-true one; and many have borne
record 10 the noises occurring before the split
ting up and turning over Of an iceberg. The
motion was probably due to the opposing cur
rents and the splitting Of the Joe. =
The phenomenon Of the change Of color in
the wafer is also true. have seen it myself,
and noticed the belt of peculiar seaweed, called
from its locality the GuIf-stream weed, always
found on the edge Of this great ocean current.
II is not generally known that 10 this current
we owe the discovery of America. 1t brought
TO the coast Of the Azores, about the end Of
the fifteenth century, Two corpses, the features
Of which indicated an unknown race of men,
and these furnished the genius Of Christopher
Columbus with certain indications of the exis-
tence of the western regions.
Yon thus see, gentlemen, that Beu's story
is decidedly possible but confess TO you,
that it is what we call in my country an "un-
common tall story."'
A HINT TO SANITARY REFoRMERs
as sometimes happens, snail creep into the
hive, the bees Immediately sting it to DEATH
The body of the snail IS far too heavy for the
bees to drag out !; and yet unless precaution
be taken it would putrefy and make stencil