Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-01-16
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Polar Cols---The Polar Sea.

! The seycre cold OF the last Two days remind
] ia oil what DR.. Kane. Mt IN informal meeting o
his friends ut the New or,s University The he
evening, related Of tie intense severity OF III
I weather where he and his companions wln;erci
! in ls54 The THERMOMETERS was 10 longer
measnrer of the temperature. Alcohol iroze %
/ once, and chloro.oru became almost solid IN
| only way 10 determine il was by y co:npsrlso
| of Instruments. Tie lowest recorded temper
I ,urc wac between 10 and 81 degrees below zero
| This i, absolutely terrific. The present wesihe
| il tropical compared with such temperature :
/ In spite OF such climate, however, the huts 0
| the Esquimaitx we're s,rn at the highest noi
reached by DR.. Kane on the suth parallel. Rel.
| deer were also loana there
/ The explorations Of the company nalc wer
! while the temperature was sometimes at liz
lowest point above named We quose = par,
graph in relation 10 the discovery OF the, opei
/ Polar Sea-
This was the temperature in which we. mad,
! oar explorations Our first party was ,mtortt:
! nate They set ont in Murch. Storms orer;oo2
| them and they finally got back 10 the vessel
/ when tlires Of the nanbcr underwent ampa,l
I ton aud two died. II was three weeks hcios
/ We were able to Start ont again, and when wt
/ did SO, we found chat the coistof Greenland die
/ nor, nj this point ran IN course represented oi
/ most east and west Here We discovered he,
| land. which we named Washington. This iam
/ was tla,iled bv arrange of lofty mountains, , ,2lt
\ beet III height, and these ranges stretched out
/ anparcaiis tartto the north. The latter portion
! OF this travel was most interesting. We tonne
1 before Us a field oil lee, and over his ~t' ioani
I am omen water which has since been called thf
! open Pola, Sea- This water appeared icetess--
| II was apparently without ice. Not parlFt
| Of ice lined lis shores. AT an altitude OF 3.~
feet, rs far AZ eolld see, an open sea met on'
! eve A gale oil long duration swept over thi
water, but brouehtao drift along with ii. Al
animal lie rcsoricd 10 these waters. The sea
was shot upon its shores, and the duck resorse''
10 it from every direction, We could not tel
the exact Temperature of this water, but it was
warmer thaa any water found below In speak
ing of this seq, can, with propriety, speak o
tide streams. This term is known 10 the Russian
and Danes The abraznreS Of the tides some
times leave al open space in the sea. Tn
opposite side of Greenland remained to b.
explored 10 complete the circuit OF SmIti
Sound We had here gone over a route of oyei
1000 miles.
DR.. Kane expressed the opinion that with I,
properly organized company the Polar Sea nigh
be reached. aud he had no doubt that it wouit
yet he reached and eSp,ored We shoadnot b
at all surprised if he should before long head
another expedition with this express object.
According TO the census OF 1850. the number
OF deaths in the United States, from June LIST
lS49, TO June LIST. 1850 was 323, n33, OF wholt
%, a0l were whi;cs. The total population a.
that time being %, 1871 ,s7s, this is about oneant
touf-tcnl.s per ccnt.-thc lowest mortality. per-
haps, that has ever been recorded in any civilized
country. The tables show that the Uuitea State