Butte record., 1854-12-09
ARcrIc EXHIBITION.

uoH> Ii Ut eu u peleti te tue ystr
ries of the Atl mite The old Nos
Vikings, in the ninth century. reachec
Ic land, where the IRISH had ev n prece
{ il them; and c injury la er, Eri, o
Iceland, the fist Arctic NJ vigator, IS
forth wesfw ard to search for 9th lands.
These Scandinasi sians, ffom their sra-
ro.iugs, brought b OK t lies of lofty is
lands. vailed with Il ciels, and OF 'er
5. fli that I'll y named them Greea-lantl
Tiu land but ihis lard of Grapes h..
yer Vet revtale iisef, though search
ed for subsequently in al directions
iiom Lab a o. t. the Azores Wand r
1 ing marin RS in hese north r. latiud 5
| p ke of the TRANCE : b rri r, neithe
earth, ir, nor sky, bu al thr e, e,'throng'
ahich it W impass bic 10 'netra'e
Here, in thi- unkn wn ocean, tad i n
and bic had | e. d III ir mary Is tht
isl nd ST. Br ndi, osly visabl- 1T PEE
crliar tlme> and to Law red eyes, and
that other strangr II .nd5 Of gloom and
mt>tesy, fv,- d j, 5 sail Fl N tn O.kn ;
10 which tn. sou of til dead W r, ier-
ried over at night according to the be-
ief OF tn Fl herlnel, along the ea-coas
of W stern r. laud Iicie also, Plato
iaced his Atlantis. and Straho pr gas
tic tea til t IL or foe wold~ right
b f5un tn re. inhahlled u rae dife
N from h ol ntnen a d st,,l 5
the prcsei nee Of di GOV ~ tannte The
nm mind all he great n t,t.ns f an-
iquity 9. me in turn, an sazed ON th
pill rs Of Hereul upon lhe ma,e tene
5rosum, wh"se wa'ers they beiicv d
conn ed i.urote W, h eastern ASH.
Two tl,es to India we're iodicted
b, tfadiio and science; the northwest
by the Q KIN Us, the Fa.oe Isl nds, and
Iceland. h l'iad by the Vikings OF
Sand navia y nd he southwest by the
Canari and Azores tri d b, the m r
i'm Ph9nic rs. Bat ne gr al @ld
srrl, us m Il ures towards anie ,iiscov-
efy We're ard rtah n till til fifteenth
century, when tue Po'tueue e took ,he
ad in dveniur their object beiug 10
fleet a p ssage t, Iudia by Africa, in
ordc t, rival aly, at tn lime carry
ing on her tr de by th Me}itetran Al,
and Red seas Then the b, auiful
ocean I-nds acre fl st rev. ed to Eu-
rope. and imagination fl | d with the id a
that othr lands Wig, ly clrcled
by lis " .tcis, avail ing Eulorcan dis
co>e'y
The 'otugu Sc succecced. The prth
to India BY the ap', WIS found and
the great 0 eaa hi-h"av, ea.tward to
he Indic~ opened fer he n tons. 70
ri al the Po tuguese. Colu bus con-
civ, d the bold idea of western pass
&C, acr IS tie waters OF tnr \ Ian l.,
and reached the Spice Isl ndS sonncr
han til Portuguese b their nea fpu d
Cape. A presage # th' possibility OF
the Achievements I'D com down the
str. am of time, and he undertook til
voyag Incident Of success. Thus h.
name # G lumbus statds first N tn
list of those who attempt d til wester.
pa~sale to Ind a, and by sod 'ing scov
e ed w vorld
The mruls givcn by Portugal ana
Sp i'll cont'n d vi daring riv y
4 n"ng>t Eur pean poAcrs through the
fifteenth and slXte"rth c. II u is. Th u
was the gre terra Of maritime pr igsess-
ion through vi r, zone aud every meri
iii of tn cArth's ,urtarc--one oi those
-ingnlar pnchs wnen the minds oF II n
re all turn d t, me object pochs
which seems II yer to recur with mi
lar unity and intensity of purpose. Tne
traic "t the void was opened ; islanl~
md continents TO C up in gaand rucc S.
ION before the aGvanclng pr"ws Of tht
daring ships but one thing was W nting
to ti'r competi III "f .eog ayhical sci nc
the knowl de Of t.e northwest pa h
to lndl across the All,u'ic.
Great was tn interest excited through
out Europ 1T tn wonderful eve a'ions
Of Colunsb bus, espec al V t the Court
tienry VII, where 1t was affi IN a 10 h
{" tn ng m re ,it-ine a bum Il 10
5 il bv The wet into the east, where
P ci~s grow, bv i way never known
before y s., five years ;aiter he ha
tried southwest pass Q !, and d,,cover q
'hS " 81 LHiitH1 Od'bO ltu tltt III
northwest expiditien ON the English
shoes. tnd tn 10 thern 60 tinent of!
Americ vas discovered. Inte-e igt
n wiih siccess and ! bas ian Cabo
he son, undertook conf ex id 40
With twb cafav Is and three hundre
men. he sci for'h ~ ly, and reached
l. brador, g but dust pasS no fur he
for be b aps Office" Twicr af erwards
he assayed the nothwe prssare. ever ia
th h p Of iinding Cattag md reached
t. the sixty-s venth degree. when mu
tin '.m'n st his crew ob iged him to
eturn. Still, even ,hough he il q, |
honorS, wards, and Il pension wer
b5s owed IN him for his services, ana
nis memory his been transmit d t
fosterlt' as The . great sc ma ="
The fifteenth century d now SC rec
ly cl 'sed yet all Europe was ha ten,ne
set rth her a I've etiur rs and VIC i'm |
the ice-w rid fn al hun.n O.
.ress seems t, deman human -ac ifice |
fhe xpiditio -, undertaken 10y th,. 2 ri
ngues., reach ID a. fir as II ,d>on'- |
Stats, but peri~hed there-th If fa.e
" S never known But failures are
great tie chers When the icy barrier
was found inpas -able thai lay slone t e