New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-07-28
SCIENCE, INDUSTRY, AND MrEyTToM

of Loadon, has just published book entitled, Season
with the Sea-Horses, Sporting Adventures IN the
Northern Seas. He spent summer in sealing sooP
which went as far as Sptzbergen The results OF the
cruise were &c walruscs, So eeals, bears, white
whale aud 81 reindeer, besides come ~ waruses ana
20 seas killed but lost The geat Spitzbeigen seal L.
ten feet long, six feet in circumference and worth Tor
lie oil at present i've Elk dollars its skin beng worm
a dollar or two more bushel Of nice fresh prTiwns
ound in the stomach Of one Of them was evidence OF
seals diet. In cutting up some large seals he 1ouhd
In tler stomacls btAhel or so apiece OF small hsh
about five or six inches long, resembling young cod
He thinks there are no sl Of any size in the spzoer
gen seas for they often tried with hook and line, out
| could never catch any, Ia walrus hshing, when
young walrus is caught by making it grnnt or cry,
whole herd of walIuses be brought within REACH
| full.sized male waus weighs 1900 pounds, but
yields only abou. double the quantity Of OIL got from
good seal. Is hide worth from four 10 eight dollars,
and 10 used for harness. sails rigging and for gluing
while scaskns converted into dog-fkin gloves and
Dundee Kid Young walrus-meat is good aud
without the disasreeable ishy flavor Of SEAL Towards
the end Of August waliuses herd islands or the
mainland along secluded bays, in clOsey-packed mass
es sometimes the number Of thousand where
ttey remain in sem-orpid state for weeks together.
he Las frequently seen the Old males fighting With
great ierocity. One would imagine, from the petition
OF their tusks that they could be used only to strike
downward, but be says that they turn their Lecks
with such facility that tley can strike either upwards,
dowLwards or sidewiso with equal dextelity. They
frequently get their lusks broken The of the tusk
in time Of peace is to pow their food Of the ground
at tie bottom Of the ea and also to aid them in cau-
herring up tho ice and rocLs. 7hcyare often found COW
cred wiA scars and wounds received from fishermen,
bears and one auo.Ler. fulLszed male bear is up
wards Of eight eet in length and our-and-lalf feet
high ut the shoulder He yields .00pounds OF bnbber,
aud hs skin weighs than 100 pounds. lie lives
principally on seals Wien he sees a seal on sheet
Of loose ice he slps into the wafer hnfa mile or 80 to
the ward Of his prey wms slowly and silently TO
ward him. keeping very little Of mis- head above water.
On APPROACHING tie ice which the seal ID lying the
pear gdes along unseen under the edge OF it, diving
also If need b. until he il close under the hapless
seal when one Jump up and one blow Of his trerien-
dous paw generally settle the business. The seal can
not escape unless he get into the water, where the
bcar has no chance. Mr. Lamont shot at least dozen
large seas which were deeply Scared and gashed by
the cnws OF beam. An old bear viii kill the biggest
bull-warus, although nearly three times is own !
weight by suddenly spnngiDg on hum from behind
some projecting ice sezing him by the back OF his
neck with hs teeth and baerng in his skull with re-
peated blows of bis enormous fore-paw. He found
one bear at distance et twenty-five miles from The
shore. couple Of young bears which they captured,
immediately BEGAN furious fight with each other, re-
gcrdless Of human presence 10 which they appeared to
pay bui little attention. After mAkinya hearty meal
OH their POOR mothers carcass, the ungracous cnbs
were taken on board; they are in the Jariin dcs
Pialle. M Pari. Mr.. Lamont thinks the flesh of the
reindeer the richest and most delicious meat, Wild or
tame which he ever tasted, with The exception Of tui
E,ard and dimnutive West Indian animal called by
the negroes the Lapp.
Mr.. John Weber has taken ont patent in Eng
land for picking oakum by machinery. The rope is
cut up into convenient lengths the pieces soaked in
hot water 70 soften them and then the twist is taken
out by hand After the strands are thus separated,
thoy are macerated for ten fifteen minutes in hot
wafer kept in moionby padde-wheel they are then
taken ont and dried, when they be picked in or
binary c,udng machine.
AT late meeting OF the Geographical Society of
London, James Hector communicated, through Sir
Roderick Murcbison, paper on the geology Of the
country between Lake Superior and the Pacific Ocean
between the fory-eighth and iftyfh parallels of la
tude explored by the government expedition under the
command OF Captain Paller, from 1871 TO 1860. The
paper shows that the central portion Of North America
is a great triangular plateau, bounded by the Rocky
Mountains ana the Allcghmies, stretching nonhward
10 the Arctic Ocean, and divided into two slopes by
watershed which nearly follows the boundary line be-
tween the United States and British America. Along
the Pacific Ocean in the cretaeeous and tertiary strata
there found Ignite has been discovered Of superior
qualy; II was determined by this expedition 10 be Of
eletaceous age 1t has been worked for come years
pas, by the Hudfons Bay Company, and is in great
demand for the s,eam-nayy of the Pacific station and
alio for the manufacture OF gas. Extensive Ignite de-
posts have also been found in The prairie 70 the east OF
the Rocky Mountains. Besides these there were also
found imies of the tertiary period. II Is supposed
that the existence OF this supply Of fuel in tho PLAINS
along the Saskatchewan, on the Pacific coast in Van
covers island and in the Islands OF Formosi ana Ja-
PAN will exercise TN important influence on the stean-
route line room 10 be opened across the continent and
the Pacific Ocean.
-stone-breakiug machines similar TO that employed
as the Central Park and at Weehawken for the produe-
ton Of broken stone for the fort aLSandy Hook are be-
ing introduced into England. The work OF stone
breaking which by hand costs fifty to sixty cents per
TIM hen performed even by the cheap labor Of Eng
land il done by machinery for ten cents per tun.
Mr. Archibald Geilxie in recent article ia the
Rdipburg Nec Philosophical journal, has shown that
since the occupation of Britsin by the Romans the
coast along the firth Of Forth has iisen at least twenty
five feet This shows a rate OF rise nearly half great
as the present rate Of upheaya in the north OF Swc
den.
An elegant book in mauve binding entitled the
Qgadiatare 81 TIE Circle Correspondence bet~ecn an