Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1854-04-05


that even wink may be unsafe. As we walk
on, you find that the iron work Of your gun be-
gins to penetrate through two coats OF woolen
mittens with sensation like hot water
But we have been supposng your back to the
wind and if you are a good Arcticised subject,
a warm glow has already been followed by apro-
fuse sweat. Now turn about and face the wind;
what ID of a change! how the atmospheres
are waited off! how penetratingly the cold trick
les down your neck and in at your pockets -
Whew, jack-knfe, heretofore, like Bob Saw
yers apple" unpleasantly warm" in the breeches
pocket, has changed to something rs cold as ice
and as hot as fire; make your way back to the
ship! Iwas once caught three miles off with
freshened wind, and at one time feared that
would hardly see the brig again. Morton, who
accompanied me, had his cheeks frozen, and felt
that lethargic numbness mentioned in the story
books.
will tell you what this feels like, for | have
been twice caught out" Sleepiness is not the
sensation. Have you ever received the shocks
Of a magneto.electric machine, and had the pe-
culiar benumbing sensation of" can't let 90" eX-
tending up to your elbow joints? Deprive this
of its paroxysmal character; subdue, but diftuse
it over every part of the system, and you have
the so called pleasurable feelings of incipient
freezing ltseems even to extend to your brain.
It's inertia is augmented; every thing about you
seems of n ponderous sort; and the whole am
cunt of pleasure is in gratifying the disposition
TO remain at rest, and spare yourself an encoun-
ter with these latent resistances. This is sup
pose, the pleasurable sleepiness of the story
books.
could fill page after page with the ludicrous
mseres of our ship board life. We have two
climates, hygrometricaly as well as thermomet-
ricay at opposite ends of the scale. A pocket
handkerchief, pocketed below in the region of
stoves, comes up unchanged. Go below again,
and it becomes moist, flaccid, and almost wet
Go on deck again, and it resembles shingle
covered with linen. could pick my teeth with
it.
You wish to know how manage to stand this
remorseless temperature. 1t is a short story and
perhaps worth the telling. "The Doctor still
retains three luxures, remnants Of better times
silk next TO his skin, tooth brush for his
teeth, and white linen for his nose Every thing
else is Arctic and hairy-fur, fur, fur. The silk
is light and washable, needing neither the clean
dirt Of starch nor the uncomfortable trouble OF
hat-irons. 1t secures TO me clean screen be-
tween my epdermoid and seal.skin integu-
ments"
We have rarely met with work that united so
much entertaining description and exciting mar
rative with so much valuable scientific intorma.
ton. 1t is indeed book to delight all classes
of readers-those who read for pleasure as well
as those who read for instruction-and it is a
book of which Americans may justly feel proud
as it records the courage, the humanity the sci
ence, and the lberaity of their countrymen-
The publishers have caused the volume to be
fusely illustrated by maps, Autographs, and en-
cravings, exquisitely engraved, from DR.. Kane's
drawings, by some of the most skillful artists ir
the Union.