New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-22


sosises and diseonioyi a EA.nEessss. merchant
VIE Aas msae freqaezt Voyages - Sp'izssrsen,
tod ne iAa. in lbs latitude Of s0o 30 never suss
certainly sketAsz il wAs dsy or night and the COOK
Wa the only person on board who eeoid tell him
At tirst the noet INA, sunshoe strikes you as b.
Ing wonderfully eorveniNt Yoa lose nothing OF
TIE scenery; JOu can read and write IS usuAl; you
never need be in hurry, because there is time
enough for every thing. It is not necessary to do
your days work in tho daytime, for no night
comesh. You are never belAsed, and some ~hst Of
the stress of fe is lifted from your shoulders. Bat
sf,er time, you would be glad Of an excuse to stop
seeing. and Observing and thinking. and even co.
loving There is DO eompnisirs rest, such as DARK.
ne,, bring,-uo sweet isolation, which is the best
refreshr,ent Of sleep. You lie down in the broad
dsy. and the summons Arise" attends on every
reopenng Of Jour eyes. never went below and
saw my fellow. passengers all asleep around ma
without sudden feeling that something was wrong.
They were drussed, or under some unnatural infa-
ence, that they thus slept so fast while the sun.
shire streamed in through the port holes.
There are some advantages Of this northern sum
mer which have presented themselves 10 me in
rather grotesque light. Think what an aid and
shelter is removed from crine-how many vices
which can only flourish in the deceptive atmosphere
Of night, mus. b checked by the sober reality Of
dayhaht! No assassin can dog the steps Of bis VIC
tim; no burglar can work in sunshine; no guilty
lovers can hold stolen interviews BY moonlght-an
concealment h removed, for the sun, like the Ego
Of G,d sees everything and the secret vices Of tho
earth must be- bold indeed, if they can bear HE gaze.
Morally, as well as physically, there is safety 10
light. and danger in darkness-aud yet give me the
darkness and the danger! Let the patroling sun
20 of b beat for awhile, and show little conf
deuce in my ability to behave properly, rather than
worry me with lis seepess vigilance.
have described the smells Of Hsmmerfest, which
are iss principal characteristic. 1t seemed TO me
the dreariest place in the world, on first landing,
wee sgo; but by contrss. with what we have since
seen, il has become rather cheerful aud comfort
able was visiting merchant to day, and noticed
With pleasure stunted ash, about eight feet high,
in an adjoining garden. "Oh," said he, in . tone
of irrita.ed pride, "we have plenty Of trees here
there is quite forest up the valley" This forest
after some search, / found. The trees were about
six feet high, and rome Of them might have been
a. thick as my wrist In the square before the
merchants house lay q crowd Of drunken Lapps,
who were supplied with as much bad brandy as
they wanted By licensed grog shop. The Russian
sailors make sse of the same privilege, and we fire.
qu.nsly hear them singing and wraDsling on board
their White Sea jxnks. They are saaPproschabiy
picturesque, especially after tho days work isover,
when they generally engage in hunting, in the eI
tensfve forests of their boards, and exercise the
law Of retaliation on ali the game they catch.
A long street of turs-roofed houses, whose IN
habitants may be ,aid to be under the sod even
before they de, leads along the shore Of the bay I"
a range Of fakes, redolent of drying Goldfish Be-
yond this you Chamber over rocks and shingles TO
low, grassy hesdlsnd, whereon stands pillar com
memoratiDg the measurement Of a meridian line OF
25o 60, from the Danube to tho Polar Sea, which
was accomplished BY the Governments Of Austria
Russia and Sweden, between Che years 1916 and
1852. The pillar marks the northern terminus
Of the line, and stands 10 lat. 700 40 lr.3. Its
plain shaft Of polished rcd granite, standing on
base Of gray granite, and surmounted BY bronze
globe, on which map Of tAs earth is roughly or
lined. 1T.