New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-11-20
MIR. TAYLOR on LIFE IN TIE NORTH.

Mr. BAYARD TAYLOR on Thursday evening gave
lecture before the Hatfeds Young Mems Christian
Association in the church on the Of Ninth ave-
nue and Thirty-irst street, which was crowded. MIR.
Taylor's subject was Life in the North" He COM
menced by an alution to his visit to Egypt seven
years ago, whc lie formed his determination to visit
the Polar Zone, and from which he derived a warm
background for his Arctic picture. Our knowledge OF
the Polar Zone was very limited. We generally sup
posed that its inhabitants were Esqumaux and Samo-
yeds, and that the year comprised nine months OF
Winter and three months cold weather Mr.. Taylor
said that he confessed to some msgvngs at first as to
his power to endure the cold OF the North. lie
noticed the of the sotherma lines to the north
ward along the western coast of the Scandinavian
peninsula, carried tbther by the warmth of the Gulf
Stream, which kept the Norwegian ports open al the
year. while the ocean in the same latitude on the
American side was solid ice from October to June.
II was no wonder that Russia coveted these ports
her geography was incomplete without either Turkey
or Laplaud. There was snow in Germany before he
left it.; he entered Stockholm in snow storm,
and the Thermometer gradually sunk as he went North,
until at last he found the mercury and his nose frozen
at the same time He especially surprised at the
brliancy of the Arctic skies, which were superior to
ANYTHING he had seen in Italy In Winter the forests
seemed to be world of alabsser the glorifed forests
of the Norseman alfalfa. They reflected, too, every
hue Of the sky. Their color at dawn deepened
through all shades into orange at noon When the
thermometer stood at % 10 80 degrees below zero,
the sky was clear and there wss wind, riding was
very comfortable; but when the sky was overcast
and there wind, it WAS dangerous. He had
felt quite as cold at home at any time in Lapand
and be remembered having heard DIR. Kane say on
his last return from the Arctic Sea, in o raw October
day. that he suffered more then from cold than al any
time on his voyage. Still, the cold was not to be
smiled at. Sleep in it was death; the beard froze to
the irs the cheeks sometimes covered with ice,
and the eye.lsshes cleared themselves only by ipces-
SAINT winkpg. The sensation of cold sas felt mostly
ON going into warm room. lie had experienced the
counterpart Of this in the tropics, when, after
having borne the burning heat Of the day
without difficulty he found himself roasting
in the diminished temperature o., the night.
lie inst began to find difference in the Scandinavian
people, DUE he thought, to the influence Of cold
weather, in the province of Nouland. The Nolsnders
had splendid health and were finely-formed men,
though not handsome. They were cold only through
superior selfcon!rol. One rarely heard word of
affection from them. Love was silent because eternal
He did rot believe that they knew that they had such
thing a nervous system. In Finland he found
many things that were Oriental; among them the
vspor bath, the love OF pipes ard coffee. The Films
Were IS moral as the Swedes. Although the two sexes
used the vspor bath together and the usual sautaton
was embrace with the ngh. arm, vet their sense of
proIncty acute that kissing not tolerated.
A fNnnish woman expressed the grestest surprise on
being old tina; in many Of the countries Of Europe men
kissed their wives and sad that her husband should
kris her she would box his o and that he would feel
il 70, week. The Laps taller than they were
generally supposed to be. Their Plagiarism left them
50 years ago, and the only man who was well
acquainted with the old legends and superstons was
BOW shut up in Norwegian prison for having
committed murder while under religious excitement
The clergy had great influence over the Lapps. Most
Of them came frcn southern Sweden and Norway, and
their 10, was DO envisble one. They lived in huts
scarcely better than the average and they ccis,ed in
churches in which Ere never was kindled. Said one
OF the pastors TO him: "The words seem to freeze
they leave my mouth, and they fall on the congre
g,iion lie white snow The reindeer, which was
to the Lapp all that the camel was to the Arab, could
never be tanned. They were always Iabe to turn
round and stare at YOU and there WAS 10 way to start
tbem but by getting out OF the sedge, turning them
around and taking ores chance TO jump IN ~ Que