Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-04-01
MlistfIIoneons.
GRINNELL EXPEDITION

May, 1850 Saiiing smoothly over quiet seas. 4
had prosperous y0yrge TO tho coast Of Greenland
Of wtich.teane in sight the 20th of Junc.--
soon alter the beginning Of July, it entered the
region OF rock-riblcI Ice and from this time ever,
day brings solae phenomenon or incident of strange
nnd7intense interest. The effect Of relraction In
.lSlyisipiiy o. the icebergs prcsoned many extra
ordinary scenes, Of one OF which we rive tle oc
count from Dr. kane's journal - 71fjns.
a strip Of horizon, commencing about 50 10 tbc
cast of tho sun, and between IL md tho land rc.
Seupiou On extended plain, covered with the debris
o.ruineay'Nes' .. No effort Of Imagination was
,'usvssafy i9r me 10 travel from thc true watcrv
horizon To the false ono Of refracton above Il "a
there to see hugo structures lining an n,rnl ocean
margin. s0me Of rusty, Egyptian, rubbisb.cloT.
ged pr3pyla, and hyppthral courts-some tanerin9S
ana eo'nmnar, like Palmyra and BaalbecLsome
with archttTdve and uortico, Ike Telmessus or
Athcns' or elsc vague aud grotto-like, such as
dreany memgrcs recalled Of Ellora and Car
i can hardly realize il as | writc but il was no
trick OF fancy. The things were there halEan-hour
ago. ] saw them capricious versatile full Of
forms, but bright and definite as the phases Of
sober life Aud as my eyes ran round upon the
nlaryeious aud varying scene, every one Of these
well-remcmbercd cities rose before me- built up by
sumo suggestive feature of the ice
An iceberg is one of Gods own buildings preoch.
iny us lessons Of humility to the miniature struc-
lures OF man. Its MATERIAL one colossal Pcnteli-
Gus; ats mass, the representative of power In
rerosci its distribution, Stimulating oycry nrchi-
usti'u y pe.4 nc makes one smile Mt those class.
cat ATsmpapts which our own period reproduces in
ITS Madeleincs, Wahallas and Girnrd CoIIogos
itSe universal poems in the dead LANGUAGES Sill
VIC can compare them with the iceberg; for the
tamcStandard measures both rs IL docs Cb;,,LoL
razo aud the Hill of lIowth Bur tbe him, oF go
lraglion Is supernatural throughout. The widest
iroic OF an opium caters rcyerv Is notbinS 4, tLo
phania.sm9goria Of the sky tonight Karnaks of
ito, turned upside down, wero resting unon III
bsY-colorcd pedostals; great needless obolisks o.
pure whiteness shot up above their flse borizone
and, after an hour-glass-lke contraction M tbc;r
point Of union with their duplicated images lest
themselves in the blue of the uppcr sky
While was looking-thc soxtant useless in NV
hand for could not think Of angles-a blurred |.
aud wayy change came over the fantastic picture
Prismaiic tnings tco vague to aimit of doptrc
analysis began to margin my architectural mar
hes, and the scene faded like of Fresnels dis
'olying views. Suddenly, by FASH they reap
Ecucd IN full beauty; and just rs was beginning {
70, note in my memorandum-book the changes C
watch thls brcl interval had produced, they went
out entirely, and left a nearly clear horizon
The influence of the long summer day in the =
Arctic regions has often been described, but sci
dom with more force and beauty than in the fol- n
loNiag passage; N
The perpetual daylight had continued up to tbi, Q
moment with un,bated glare The sun had reach I
ci ms north meridian altitude some days before p
butthe eye was hardly aware Of change Mid. q
higai h%a soioned character, like the low sum- Il
III.
AT first the novelty of this great unyarving dnv al
made Il pleasing 1t curious to see the mid RI
night Arc sun set into sunrise and pleasant to Ii
md that, whether you ate slept, or idled or cl
tned, tue same daylight was always there No th
rk some night forced upon you its system of COM OF
pulsory alterations j could dine at midnight m
sup at breakfast time, and 20 to bed at MONDAY ir
and but for an apparatus Of coils and cogs called v
Watch, would have been no better and no worse hC
NY feeling wns at first an extravagant sense Of
underlined relief of some vague restraint removed W
seemed to have thrown off the slavery of hours W
In fact could hardly realize its entirety. Tho sy
astral lamps, standing, dust covered ON our lock-
ers--l am quoting the words of nv iournnl-nuy VI
zled me- as things absolee and fanciful. dc
rms was instructive perhaps; but by and by a
came other feelings. The perpetual light, garish "
and uniluctuating disturbed me. became sradu. el
Any aware oi an unknown excitant, n stimulus fiji
acting constantly like the diminutive of Gun of ca
strong coffee. My sleep was curailed and irreru at
lar; my meal hours trod upon each others heels AZ
ana but for stringent regulations Of my own inn cl
posing my routine would have been completely m
broken up.
Ny lot had been cast in the zone of lriodendrons
and sugar naples in the nearly midway latitude Sc
OF 4O'. had been habituated to day and night q
and every portion Of these two great divisions had b
ior me its periods OF peculiar association. Even u
IN the tropics had mourned the lost twilight o
How much more did miss the soothing darkness, e
OF which twilight should have been the precursor c
began TO feel, with more Of emotion than man !
tO,
bic as systematic law is the alienation of dav
and night--words that type the two great cond. il
tons OF living nature, action and repose To n
thosew who with daily labor their daily bread =
how kindly the season Of sleep! To the drone S
who, urged by the waning DAYLIGHT bastens tho
idcfered task, how fortunate that his procrastina
tion has not six months morrow! 10 tho brain II
workers among mon the enthusiasts who bear q
irksomely the dark screen which falls upon their G
day-drelms, how bonignnnt the dear night bles- u
naf paef IA
Before Christmas the scene had chanood Tho =
caaracteristcs Of IN ATctc winter are i0tted down
with the minute hdelity Of Ddtch painting: n
We have almost reached the solstice; and things Al
nre SO quiet that may as well, before forget H. re
tell you something about the cold in its sensible 81
we met it. rF' T.
You will see, by turning to the early rart of nv th
Journal that the season we look back upon as tr
me perfection Of summer contrast to the ourar SC
eous winter was in fact no summer at all We te
had the young ice forming round us in BafBn'sl
bay' ana were measuring snow falls while you I'll
were sweating. under your grass-cloth. Yet | re- I'll
member 1t as time Of sunny recreation, when we in
shot bears upon the 10es, aud were serambling in
hefrlly over glaciers and numbering Totges in the cl
prSht glare Of our day midnight. Like COM &C
plnnnS brute; thought it cold then--I who nm, d
hli;tered II touch brass button or a ramrod ly
without woOlen nit.
The cold came upon us gradually Tho first CO
ng tnht renliy struck me was the freezing up of in
our waler-easks the drp-eandle appearance of the
bung-hoes aud our inability TO Law the tin cnn III
down Tor i've minutes pause without having its le
contents made solid. Next came the conblete in ia
ability to obtain drink without manuiactnrinc il ii,
For a long time we had collected our water from Sc
the beautiful fresh pools Of the iccbergs and Hoes
noS We had 10 quarry out the blocks in ainty Gu
CLASSY Jumps, and then melt il Ia tins for our dniiy
DRINK. This was IN Wellington Channel.
b5-and-by The sludga which NE pafsed througl rei
as a., we Travelled became pancakes aud snow-baiis
- - 49, stueo up 1e even as late the llh Sc,
q. Septsn,l1eE eolleeted towering poteptilla
from Barrow's Inlet But now anything moist or mn
wet began TO strike Us something to be looked of