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ented their going ashore. The cold was by means of heated air-pipes; and a strict to diet, except in one instance, effectually cted the scurvy. The men were obliged to ertain proportion of lime-juice, sugar, and very day, in the presence of an officer. wance of bread was diminished to two and a pound of Donkin's preserved meat, towith one pint of vegetable or concentrated as substituted for one pound of salt beef Sour krout and pickles, with as much vinegar d be used, were issued at regular intervals. he crews could not take exercise on shore, re obliged to run on deck for several hours, time to some merry tune. The consequence e very judicious arrangements was, that only cance of mortality occurred during the entire ion; and that was hastened, if not altogether , by predisposing causes. Placed in this and awful situation, Capt. Parry proposed ction of a theatre on deck, and that performhould take place during the winter-a propowhich was gratefully acceded to; and, accordsailors, officers, and commander, all appeared s in her Teens, to the great satisfaction, as the ills would express it, of a crowded and de1 audience. A weekly newspaper, called The Georgia Gazette, was also actually composed rinted on board, the officers becoming voluncontributors, and Captain Sabine acting as

the 4th of November, 1819, they took leave of n, that cheering orb of this great world, both nd soul,' for a period of at least three months. his occasion, the following beautiful lines aped in The North Georgia Gazette; they are said the production of Capt. Parry:

Behold yon glorious orb, whose feeble ray

Mocks the proud glare of Summer's livelier day!

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Once more shall Spring her energy resume,
And chase the horrors of this wintry gloom;
Once more shall Summer's animating ray
Enliven Nature with perpetual day:
Yon radiant orb with self-inherent light
Shall rise, and dissipate the shades of night,
In peerless splendour re-possess the sky,
And shine in renovated majesty.

In yon departing orb methinks I see
A counterpart of frail mortality.
Emblem of man! when life's declining sun
Proclaims this awful truth, thy race is run!'
His sun once set, its bright effulgence gone,
All, all is darkness-as it ne'er had shone!
Yet not for ever is man's glory fled,

His name for ever numbered with the dead!'
Like yon bright orb, th' immortal part of man-
Shall end in glory, as it first began;

Like HIM, encircled in celestial light,

Shall rise triumphant 'midst the shades of night;
Her native energies again resume,

Dispel the dreary winter of the tomb,

And, bidding Death with all its terrors fly,

Bloom in perpetual Spring through all eternity!

The temperature of the atmosphere about the 18t of November became considerably lower than be fore, and the cracking of the ships' timbers was fre quent and loud for a time; but generally ceased altogether in an hour or two after a fall had take place in the thermometer, and did not occur agai at the same temperature during the winter. Th breath and other vapour accumulated during the

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mediately froze; and the whole of the crew en occupied during two or three hours in in scraping away the ice, in order to prevent ling from becoming wet by the increase of ture occasioned by the fires.-(Journal,

e 17th of November, 1819, the water in the pump-well was completely frozen, so that it longer possible to work the pumps; the ship, , was so tight as not to require this assistAbout this part of the winter the bottles ng the lemon-juice began to burst, the whole being frequently frozen into a solid mass, a small portion of highly concentrated acid centre, which, in most instances, was found leaked out, so that when the ice was thawed little better than water. The vinegar also frozen in the casks in the same manner, and great deal of its acidity when thawed. A few of highly concentrated vinegar, which had nt out on trial, resisted the effects of intense ad, when exposed to a temperature of 25° bero, congealed only into a consistence like the thickest honey, but was never sufficiently break any vessel which contained it. Vinelemon-juice intended for use in these regions be previously concentrated, and, if mixed x or seven times the quantity of water, would every necessary purpose, and would take up pace in the stowage of the vessel (pp. 121,

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FEBRUARY.

ME etymologists derive February from Februa, thet given to Juno, as the Goddess of Purificawhile others attribute the origin of the name to

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Februa, a feast held by the Romans in this mont in behalf of the manes of the deceased..

Remarkable Days

In FEBRUARY 1822.

THIS festival is of high antiquity, and the antie christians observed it by using a great number lights; in remembrance, as it is supposed, of or blessed Saviour's being declared by Simeon to be light to lighten the Gentiles; hence the name of Ca dlemas-day. It is also called Christ's Present tion,' the Holiday of Saint Simeon,' and, in tl north of England, the Wives' Feast-day.'-Bisho HALL, in his twentieth sermon, for Candlemas-da says, 'It hath been an old (I say not how true) not that hath been wont to be set on this day, that, if be clear and sun-shiny, it portends a hard weath to come; if cloudy and louring, a mild and gent season ensuing. Let me apply this to a spiritu use; and assure every hearer, that, if we overca this day with the clouds of our sorrow and the ra of our penitential tears, we shall find a sweet ar hopeful season all our life after.'

The Benediction of the Candles at Rome, on th day, as witnessed by Lady Morgan in 1820, is th described:-The ceremony takes place in the bea tiful chapel of the Quirinal, where the pope himse officiates, and blesses, and distributes with his ow hands, a candle to every person in the body of t church; each going individually and kneeling at tl throne to receive it. The ceremony commences wi the cardinals; then follow the bishops, prelati, c nons, priors, abbots, priests, &c., down to the s cristans and meanest officers of the church. Wh the last of these has gotten his candle, the poor co

-le, receive theirs. This ceremony over, the re lighted, the pope is mounted in his chair ied in procession, with hymns chaunting, e antichapel; the throne is stripped of its hangings, the pope and cardinals take off d and crimson dresses, put on their ordinary nd the usual mass of the morning is sung. ssing of the Candles takes place in all the hurches.'-(Lady Morgan's Italy, vol. ii, 285.)

3.-SAINT BLASE.

as Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia, and suffered om in 316, under the persecution of Licinius, mand of Agricolaus, governor of Cappadocia Lesser Armenia. No other reason than the votion of the people to this celebrated marne church, seems to have given occasion to combers to choose him the titular patron of ofession; and his festival is still kept by Norwich, and also at Doncaster, with a soild. Perhaps the iron combs, with which he to have been tormented, gave rise to this -For an account of the anniversaries of the t trades at Montpellier, in France, see T. T. 3, p. 29.

3. SEPTUAGESIMA SUNDAY. institution of this and the two following Sunnnot be traced higher than the beginning of ch or the close of the fifth century. When ds Septuagesima, Sexagesima, and Quinqua(seventieth, sixtieth, and fiftieth), were first to denote these three Sundays, the season of ad generally been extended to a fast of six that is, thirty-six days, not reckoning the ys, which were always celebrated as festivals. time, also, the Sunday which we call the first y in Lent, was styled simply Quadragesima, fortieth, meaning, no doubt, the fortieth day Easter. Quadragesima was also the name

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