Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-02-04
-BAYARD TAYLoRss Lecture on "Life in the
North, g nj the William st. III. E. Chur ch.

this ~afternoan, VIII OF course De neard oy
all our lecture going citizens. But there are
many of oar readers. both in town and coun
Try, who will not be present at its delivery
and for their benefit we copy the subjoined
sketch of this populsr production from the
Cleveland Leader of "Wednesday:
Bayard Taylor has traye lied over all the
Old World, and has spoken to audiences in
many places, but surely, he has never spo-
ken before a more crowded house than was
4he Melodeon last evening. The fact that
the lecture was the last of the course, added
is quota Of numbers to the immense compa-
ny. which gathered TO see and @Far the great
est traveller living.
Mr.. Taylor is OF medium size with a coun-
teHance Drowned with tropical suns and
s~hardenedby winds and storms of regions OF
perpetual snows
He said that although the cold Northern
chimes are generally considered barren,
cherries portions OF the earth, yet he had
found beauties in the nature OF each zone
and country of the globe, aud had found as
much. happiness among the Inhabitants Of
Lapland, whose rocky shores spread like a
wedge into the Baltic sea about the region
Off deg. north latitude, as in any other
.nsiisn. In LapIand there was a singular
tract which has a temperature quite warm.
aud at the most northern town in the world
the mercury is never below 20 deg. below
Zero. This belt of comparatively warm
Temperature goes round the north cape and
includes part of .Lapiand. This warm cur
rent passes up to Spitsbergen and so on to-
ward the north pole, and this presents the
most practicable road TO those desoiate re-
sgiens. His 6rst visit to these climates was,
in truth, a journey in search OF cold weather.
that he might experience a more perfect
consraststc his previous travels. Tie mer-
scafy ranged during the winter months, from
40 deg. above. to SO deg. below zero. The
.pecaliar features of nature in these high lat
.itudes Impressed him greatly. He lost
sight of the sun but two or three days. and
al these times nothing could surpass the
magnifcence- Of the. artic sky, with its grand
exhibition of aurora borealis and the beauty
of the eloualess sky. The scenery presents
one universal expanse of white, as thoagh
sske world was carved out of the purestala-
sbastersAFestoons curtains, laces aud span
giles 81 ice, far surpassed all the beauties o!
tropical climes. These icy features of the
landscape reflected al, the colors OF the sky,
giving such delicateiy coiored panoramas as
cannai be described.
Z But the terrors ofihe artic winter equals
its beauties. The intense cold penetrates
all things and fingers or faces are never ex-
. posed with immunity. But our ideas of cold
" are entirely relative, for at 40 deg. below
= zere q person does no. feel colder than at 10
deg. below. But this low temperature
innust be battled with ~manfully, or death will
surely be the result OF the exposure.
All moisture, whether from the breath or
exhalation from the body of man or beast, is
instantly concealed forming a crust of ice
.abouvthe traveller. There is too. a degree
of cold when we can not only feel the cold
5ssbut see Ii for the PARTICLES of frozen utmos-
: phere can be seen driving through the air,
4a1d these cut Ikea dull knife. This in
tense cold Is not as much felt during the
first winter spent in it by a Soatherner as
in a second season. He endured the cold
among the Laps as they did themselves, but
he should not like to extend the test.
Asto the inhabitants of these Northern
:. countries, there are three distinct classes
: in close proximity. the SWedes, Fins and
Laps. The first being strictly honest them
- selves,stake il for granted that all men are
90. Although apparently mild and tame.
yet behind the outside mildness, is the old
d & of the Norsemen. which may break out
e when occasion calls. The men of the
north are dark and true, though cold and np-
ssaprently stolid.
.9ssE The Fins are of different class. They
are more ike the people of the Orient.
They are passionate and imaginative, and
therefore impuisive and superstitious. We
End among them a peculiar excitable class
of religious feelings, their natures being
nervous and active.
ss The Swedes aud Fins are INDECENT, both
from the influence of the cold and from
their natural proclivities.
The origin of the Laps is unknown, their
m race being surrounded with as much mystic
~ as the Arabs. They are not as ANAL or
ugiy as generally reported; they average
Eve feet four or five inches In hight. although
at Stockholm there is a skeleton of a Lap
land girl who was seven feet and more in
hight.
~oss Bun little is known of their religion. The
aWizards of the North" are no longer
among them.
The greater part of Lapland consists Of a
high table land, than which 4 more bleak
and d~esolafe region eannot be imagined. ;.
The Reindeer (which is not much bigger
than a large Newfoundland dog is the chief
wealth of the Laps. OF all perverse. stupid
adaaaccountable animals, the reindeer
- stands at the head. His speed and strength
have been osesrated. A coHical account
- was given of tie pecuiiarities of driving the
reindeer, especially when it is the 6rst at
- tempt of the driver. These deer are far
worse than any baulky horse. They how
ever have many good traits. They have
great endurance, and will follow a hidden
track under the snow with u~herring certain
ty.
The summers are short and rapid in &C
ton. Grass and herbs grow with rapidly
While the inhabitants are confined il
their rocks and ice, may they ever remalI
in blissfulI ignorance of summer and VeBdhr'
in the outer world.
The lecture, of which we have given
meagre outline, was extremely interesting
throughout, and was listened to by the laFg
audience with the ~strictest attention.
A delegation from the Young Mems Chris
tian Associations Of Springfield, has recent
been visiting a-number of the neighborin
towns for the purpose Of u%akening increas
ed interest in the cause of Sabbath Schools
They filled an appointment at MarysViH
- yesterday; will be in Delaware to-day
and will meet the various Sabbath Schoo'
OF the town, together with the teachers an
all others who may be disposed to attend,
the Episcopal Church, at 81 O'Clock this a