The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1872-07-04


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dancing eyes, at bis airy manner, was
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herself into hls arms f1g tho drsi time iu
years,
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subject aud they sent for ilawley. lie
az fri offered some objections, as was
natural, but The high wages, the great
step upward, ibc Kindly interest We all
manifested, soon brought him 20 a CRATE
col acceptance!
Splendid murmured Miss Peddle,
with a ripping laugh. knew the thing
was feasible And so in two weeks more
our fond bridegroom viii be blowing The
sea again
In two weeks more, RUTH We shah
be oil Ia six ur eight DAYS. The cargo Is
fairly tumbling aboard the Flying Chi-
dsfs, to say nothing ola fair list Of pass
cngcrs The honeymoon of our loving
doves will be abridged 20 six short DAYS
more, YOU may be certain.
CHAPTER IL.
a GREAT STEP TAkEN.
In the midst Of the Antartic ocean, a
little of the route from New York 10
Australia, there lies a large island named
kcTguelen's Land, or-as Capt. Cook
called 1.-THE island of Desolauon.
Il was discovered Just hundred years
ago. (in l112) by the French naval oil.
Ger whose name il bears. 1t was unin-
habited then, and is to-day as deserted
as ever.
The smallest school-boy among our
readers can find ii upon his map of the
world, about midway between the south
end Of Africa and Australia, well up to-
ward the South Pole.
II is hundred miles in length By fifty
in breadth, and is consequently three or
four times as large as Rhode Island.
Ii coasts are so wild and dangerous
that its discoyerer, during the two expe-
ditions that he made 20 it, did not once
bring his ships TO anchor in any Of its
bays aud harbors.
Its shape is very irregular, but some
thing like that of an hour-glass, il being
nearly cut in two by a couple of large
bays but these two divisions are UNEQUAL
in size, the northern peninsula being
much larger than the southern.
Its coast line is wildly broken and Jag
ged, its innumerablc CULTS being long and
narrow, and It's promotories are cores
pondingly sharp and slender, reaching
out into the ocean like fingers.
The body of the island indeed resem-
bles that OF some huge monster of the am
tediluvian world, even as its capes and
headlands resemble such a monsters nm.
slightly limbs and claws.
A more terrific solitude than this isle of
Desolation does not exist upon our
wrecked planet.
Neither the SHOWS of Himalaya nor thu
sands of Sahara can outyie its terrors.
No inhabitant is there not, even saw
hnnun M raRu hptth az.
nor road, no field nor garden, no horse,
no dog-not even snake or wolf.
Lone, blasted and barren, il looks like
the skeleton OF land that has persisted.
IL may indeed be that Desolation is the
relic--thc surviving tragment-of a con-
tinent that went down here countless
ages ago, with hosts of inhabitants, in
some vast CONFUSION of nature
IL has certainly undergone dreadful
visitations; been rent by earthquakes,
pulyerized by frosts, dashed and wasted
by fierce tempests.
Its mountains are only OF moderate
height, but are capped eternally with
snow.
Its vegetation is limited TO few dwar-
fish plants, including some MOSES, spe.
cies of lichen, a coarse grass, plant re-
sembling small cabbage, and sort of
cress.
Its winds are raw and piercing, its
summers cold and frosty, It's winters
those of the Polar Circles.
The interior of the island is occupied
by immense DOGGY swamps, where the
ground sinks at every step.
The rains in Desolation are almost in
cessant, in their seeson, and the island is
accordingly veined with numerous tor
rents of fresh water, some of which
have worn out of the solid rock tremend-
GUS cavities and gullies. The only other
season than that of the rains is one of al
most constant snow
The fogs Of that CHASTITY region are well
worthy Of the rains, being Ola cloud-like
density, and lowering almost continually
over the whole face Of the Island
The sun of Desolation i usually hid
den by canopy of lead-coored clouds,
and appears, on the rare occasions when
1t is visible, scarcely brighter than the
moon in other attitudes. As TO the moon
itself, aud the stars, the clouds and fogs
rarely permit them TO betray their exist
ence.
No fish worthy of note, not even fishes
of prey, abound In the adjacent waters, by
reason, perhaps, OF their containing pois-
onOus minerals, or deadly exhalations
from the volcanic fires beneath them.
Yet the dark grim sea inclosing Desol-
alton has done something 10 repair the
stcrility OF the island
Pcnguins, ducks, gulls, cormorants and
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