Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-16
NordenskjOld In Greenland.
C0smic Dust, Bat No Gases. From the London Tipnee,1

CosmIc Dust, Bat No Gases.
 From the London Tinsg.l
 Baron Nordenskiold has autographed to us from Thurso the results of his Greenland ex- petition. His work has not been wasted. It shows us for the first time, what the in- terier of Greenland is like, and though 1t is very unlike what Baron Nordenskjold imag- ined it to be, 1t has furnished him with evi dence in favor of his theory that the volume of the globe has been increased by the cos mic dust that has been constantly falling upon 1t from the lucid interspace that sur rounds it on all sides. Greenland, Baron Nordsnskjold held, must have g reason for the name 1t bears. It could not be the mere waste of ice which it has been supposed to be. The coast line, 1t Is true, Is forbidding enough and gives alender promise of any thing better beyond. But as long as the in- terior was unvisited, there was ample room for hope. The moist ocean winds which blow upon Greenland could be assumed to have spent their force and to have deposited their burden of snow upon the high noun taips of the coast. Further inland the scene might be expected to change, and to reveal verdant oases, covered with vegetation, with grass and shrubs and flowers cut of for long ages past from intercourse with the outer world, and possessing, therefore, peculiari- ties of their own, fit objects of study to the scientific naturalist. Such were Baron Nord- enskjold's apticipations. His report tells us nothing in confirmation of them.
 His expedition to the interior has psnetra- ted long way into regions never before traversed. It has found mountains, it has found snov, it has found ice, and it has found cosmic dust, but it has not found the oases of which it was in search. The main body of the party were stopped short at comparatively early point. They started on July from the west side of Greenland, and made their way inland for 40 kilometres, reaching a height of five thousand feet. Here the soft snow rendered 1t impossible for their sledges to proceed. The Lapland- CTS who had accompanied them were then sent for ward on foot, with snow-shoes, and made their way for another 230 Kilometres in advance of the rest. The ground rose as they went, but the state of things remained otherwise substantially the same. There were higher mountains and more snow and ice, but no verdant plateau. and no sign whatever to give them hope that they were on their road to it. As for the cosmic dust, there seems to have been no need of keeping the intended keen lookout for it. There was dust everywhere, whether of cosmic ori- gin or not but ouriously placed at any rate, and demanding to have it's presence account ed for. Thus far, then, although Baron Nordsnskjold has not been successful in for cling passage from one side of Greenland to the other, and although he has heard and seen nothing of the warm, fertile interior he expected to find, he can claim at least to have discovered something of the nature Of an ice-covered continent, and to have shown the way to future discoverors who may be lea to follow in his footsteps, and who may not impossibly outstrip him.
 Sydney AIcott, whose funeral occurred at lis home near South Manchester Sunday, was a descendant of one of the first settlers of Hartford, whose name is inscribed on the forefathsrs' monument in the old Center church burying ground. Mir. Olcott's ances- try purchased the farm on which the eighty eight years of his life were spent, of the Indians, and it has been occupied by the family for nearly two hundred and fifty years. The original Hartford settler, we believe, kept hotel near where the American House