New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-11-09
The Mythic Sea.

S ne MytnIc Sea.
For ages there has existed myth concerning
q Northern Ocean, whose shores were the i'm
penetrable barriers Of ice, and whose waters
held life and music all its own. The Scandi-
3naYiana remember the myth, and 10 this day In
Sweden and Norway and the Northern Islands
the great unknown sea has existence IA the
belief of every superstftious mind 10 us, who
reason so philosophicslly that nothing il hidden,
ii WAS not deemed probable that sach body Of
water did Or could exist; and though many
naSigators asserted their belief in the myth, it
has not had sufficient data to claim attention
A few minds, keen from observation and sage
cious from nature, still clung to the ancient
story and suffered it not to die One Of these
minds was DR.. Kane, who now returns home
with tidings that the lost sea is found
Our readers doubtless pursued the narrative
of the Kane Expedition with d breathless atten-
ti0n, and from it learned that the intrepid nav
igator left his vessel fast in the almost inpene-
trabls mountains Of ice IN latitude T8 deg As
min. north, pushing his way In sledges and on
foot to latitude 50 deg SO min, where he stood
upon the shore Of, to his eyes, Imitless sea.
Three thousand square miles did he scan with
eye and glass, and yet no bounds to that ex-
| panse Of water we're found for fifty two hcurs
| did heavy gale from the north heave up the
| heavy surf, and yet it brought down not par
4 ticle Of ice showing that around the pole all
was ocean life instead Of frigid death Thus
| was the veil penetrated surprise seized upon
the philosophical speenlator, and nov the world
is busy at the e.solution of this wonderful pro-
/ blem Of q Northern Sea,
4 lst The Doctor represents those waters as
I limpid as any summer sea. By what process i'm
Il nature can that high latitude so modify the
temperature OF the air as To leave the sea nm
] frozen Where the Doctor wintered the ther-
| mometer often stood at so degrees below zero,
and yet in still more northerly cline there is
4 q sea which never is frozen. Science etands
| stupaied, for all its axioms are repudiated and
new laws are to reconcile the facts to theory.
i Cd Bird and fish life is there existent I'M the
utmost profusion, There the hawk aud cider
\ duck range in unlimited freedom. willis whales
. and walrus sport in such herds as 10 make the
waters swarm with their huge merriment. Gan
these all live without proper food I Does the
duck infest these regions without Its berries and
a grasses and bulbs for sustenance Here, then,
is another query for the speculator to answer,
j and the mystery of that Northern Sea grows
II more and more exciting, zs
Over the grand ice barrier which DR.. Kane
/ passed was q new land, and he called il Nash-
lineton, giving names also to the bays and capes
Beyond this is that sen, and that sea bathes the
+ intangible North Pole--it holds the mystery OF
i the Northern Lights in its keeping--it keeps
the secret Of its own life within its bosom Will
man ever solve that secret, and open up that
, / unknown world Weshall patiently await N
hone: for, in our minds. is q vague thought
/. floating that the sea which whirls around the
= poIe Of this earth holds in its keeping the key
to a thousand mysteries, and we have faith Il
s think that in our years-should they be thre,
10 score or more-tIat my thic sea shall give mp it
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