On opening the doors at the top and bottom of th hatchway ladders, the vapour was immediately co densed by the sudden admission of the cold air int a visible form, exactly resembling a very thick smok which settled on all the pannels of the doors, &c and immediately froze, by which means the latte were covered with a thick coating of ice, which wa necessary frequently to scrape off; but the vapou was not, on any occasion, converted into a sudde shower of snow, as is related by several early tra vellers in Spitzbergen and other cold countries.(Journal, p. 134.) During the lowest degree of temperature (55° be low zero) not the slightest inconvenience was suffer ed from exposure to the open air, by a person we clothed, as long as the weather was perfectly calm but in walking against a very light air of wind, smarting sensation was experienced all over th face, accompanied by a severe pain in the mid dle of the forehead. The increased length of th day (February 15), and the cheering presence of the sun for several hours above the horizon', induce me (says Captain Parry) to open the dead-lights o my stern-windows, in order to admit the daylight of which, in our occupations below, we had entirel been deprived for more than four months. I ha soon, however, occasion to find that this chang was rather premature, and that I had not rightly cal culated on the length of the winter in Melvill 'The splendid SUN, with re-ascending ray, Of reddish light shoots up its beauteous gleam; The Hecla was fitted with double windows ern, the interval between the two sashes beat two feet; and within these, some curtains had been nailed close in the early part of ter. On endeavouring now to remove the , they were found to be so strongly cemented indows by the frozen vapour collected behem, that it was necessary to cut them off, to open the windows; and from the space the double sashes, we removed more than large buckets full of ice, or frozen vapour, ad accumulated in the same manner' (pp. 145, e curious facts, just detailed, give a lively tion of the privations to which the persons d in the arctic expedition were continually d. A pleasant jeu d'esprit, on this subject, ed in the North Georgia Gazette, in which iter is described as 6 composing himself to eneath the cumbrous weight of six blankets, hich is stretched a warm wolf's hide.' He is oused from sleep, and is shivered awake ning his elbow against the ice. Beautiful crymeet his eye in every direction, but, 'illumined candle's rays,' they soon liquefy and drop over orming a most delightful North Georgia Shower These are some of the Arctic Miseries; are related, with much good humour, in the rated Gazette, so often quoted; a truly enterg miscellany in any part of the world, of which on hope to see an octavo edition. The 'Mise(happily for our intrepid seamen) were not coned very numerous, as the following only are ed by Old Comical: oing out in a winter morning.for the purpose king a walk, and, before you have proceeded ten s from the ship, getting a cold bath in the cook's hole'. A hole in the ice for steeping salt meat, &c. L "When on a hunting excursion, and being clos to a fine deer, after several attempts to fire, discove ing that your piece is neither primed nor loade while the animal's four legs are employed in carryin away the body. 'Setting out with a piece of new bread in you pocket on a shooting party, and, when you feel in clined to eat it, having occasion to observe that it so frozen that your teeth will not penetrate it. 'Being called from table by intelligence that wolf is approaching the vessels, which, on close inspection, proves to be a dog; on going again be low, detecting the cat in running off with your dinne 'Returning on board your ship after an evenin visit in a contemplative humour, and being rouse from a pleasing reverie by the close embrace of 'Sitting down in anticipation of a comfortab breakfast, and finding that the tea, by mistake, made of salt water.' The distance at which sounds were heard in th open air, during the continuance of intense cold, a forded matter of considerable surprise: people we often heard distinctly conversing in a common tor of voice at the distance of a mile; and a man wa heard singing even at a greater distance than thi At a distance of two miles from the ships, smok which had passed from them horizontally was sme so strong, as to impede the breathing of some officer who were walking on shore. On the 5th of March, 1820, the thermometer ros to 15° at noon, which was considered a mild an pleasant day. The same temperate and enlivenin weather continued on the 6th, and 7th; and, o the latter day, a circumstance occurred which fille our navigators with joy, as affording some promis of the approach of Spring. This olive-branch c promise, which Hope's choicest dove brought t Britain's ark of Discovery and of Enterprise was n n the thawing of a small quantity of snow, urable situation, upon the black paint-work' hip's stern which exactly faced the south. being the first time that such an event had 1 for more than five months, the circumtrifling as it would have appeared in any cuation, proved a matter of no small interest sfaction to those who witnessed it. On Behring's rocks and Greenland's naked isles, Earth's loneliest bounds, and Ocean's wildest shore. [To be continued.] CAMPBELL. MARCH. HONG the Romans, March, from Mars, was the month; and marriages made in this month were anted unhappy. Remarkable Days In MARCH 1822. 1.-SAINT DAVID. INT David was the great ornament and pattern is age. He continued in the see of St. David's is worthy of remark, that no appearance of thawing took place pt in the situation described, and even there, upon the yellow the snow remained as hard as before. many years; and having founded several monaste ries, and been the spiritual father of many saints both British and Irish, he died about the year 544 at a very advanced age. The leek worn on this da by Welshmen is said to be in memory of a grea victory obtained by them over the Saxons; they during the battle, having leeks in their hats, to dis tinguish themselves, by order of St. David. St. Ceadda or Chad was educated in the monaster of Lindisfarne, under St. Aidan; was afterwards B shop of Lichfield, and died in the great pestilence o 673. *4. 1821.-PRINCESS ELIZABETH Died, The infant daughter of their Royal Highnesse the Duke and Duchess of Clarence, aged two month and twenty-two days. Flee, little tender nursling! Flee to thy grassy nést; There the first flowers shall blow, The first pure flake of snow Shall fall upon thy breast. Peace! peace! the little bosom Labours with short'ning breath- Speaks bis departure nigh: Those are the damps of death. |