neau,

bound-where from" in the Mediterra- golden inscriptions. Lamps, ever light-beyond a doubt, that he regarded it as all communication must be preceded, hang from the roof, and the turbeh-built on the site of ancient Troy. ed by the hoisting of the colours, and the dars, or keepers of the tomb, are con compliment," Buon giorno Signor Ca- stantly reading chapters of the Korán for pitano e tutta la compagnia, buon giorno;" the repose of the soul of the sultans. Conwhile every question is ended by a "distantinople contains about twenty of these grazia," which is made to reverberate for turbehs. The Turkish burial-grounds several seconds in the speaking trumpet.' are always placed near the towns, and, Zea (Ceos,) where the art of weaving being kept clean and adorned with versilk was first taught by Pamphila, who dure, are agreeable yet impressive obmade webs of it so fine that they jects; they are never imagined to be haunted, a circumstance more to be attriwere compared to gossamer, and poeti-buted to their attractive appearance, than cally called a web of air, continues to to any strength of mind peculiar to the folcarry on its original manufacture, but lowers of Mahomet. Indeed, one can not to any considerable extent. The see no reason why the resting-place of our ladies of this island are far from being departed friends should be in the most ugly, but our author complains, that dirty and melancholy spots, or why their the free, not to say, indecent, pos- remains should be so often and so unnetures which they assume when lolling on their dyvans, render their beauty not very attractive to a northern taste.' We revert again to extract :

A Turkish Church-Yard at Scio (Chios.) Near the town [Scio], on the sea shore, is seen a vast burial-ground, appropriated to the Turks; the cause of its being so extensive is, that their religion forbids the burial of more than one person on the same spot of ground; the graves are indicated by stones, inscribed with gilt Arabic characters: they are shaded with cypress, aloes, and the other trees by most nations regarded as expressive of grief. Vizirs and other great men have a kubbe, that is, a tower and monument beautifully built, placed over their graves. People of a middle station have two stones placed upright, one at the head, the other at, the feet.

cessarily disturbed.'

tail, stained red, and stuck upon a pole,
The Though. The though is a horse's
with a gilt knob at the top: this is one
of the military ensigns of the Turks, and
the dignity of a vizir is determined by
the number of these horses' tails which he
is allowed to carry before him. Besides
the though, each dozen of men has, when
on march, a small standard, the number
of which causes the army to be crowded
with flag-bearers, who in battle are worse
than useless; the Turkish soldiers think it
no disgrace to loose their colours, except-
ing, however, the holy banner of Moham-
med, which in battle is kept at a conve-
nient distance from the field, and at the
first appearance of a defeat, is precipitate-
ly removed. The Janissaries conceive
military glory to consist in a strenuous de
fence of their kettles and spoons.-2uid
rides? Is it more rational to place ho-
nour in the defence of a piece of tattered
silk, or of a monstrous two-headed black
eagle?'

Till the last century the question remained undecided, as Strabo had left it; but in the year 1785, Le Chevalier, an accurate and laborious traveller, discovered a spot in the plain, or rather at the foot of Ida, which seemed better to answer the description of the poet; it was a hill near the village of Bounar-Bashi, which he chose for his Pergamus; the river, which before every traveller had regarded as the Scamander, was now proved to be the Simoeis, and the former Simoeis remained without a name; much was said concerning the hot and warm sources of the newly-found Scamander. Other travellers, with an imagination less heated, visited this spot; they found the distance from Bournar-Bâshi to the Hellespont, sources of the new Scamander, instead of too great; they discovered that the being one warm and the other cold, were both warm; many difficulties were raised against the system of Le Chevalier, and rebutted with warmth by his friends. Two parties immediately divided the classic world; one contended for the truth of the minute and often fanciful details of Le Chevalier; while others denied the truth of many of the most important facts brought forward by that geographist. Both parties were violent, and, as generally happens in such cases, equivocation took the place of truth, passion that of argument.

To conciliate the two parties is a task which I have neither the wish nor the talent to perform: I have too often experienced, that when once discord has reared her head in religion, in politics, or in literature, argument is the last instrument to which resort must be had to check its influence-blustering ignorance generally Ilium and the Troic Plain. The pre- crushes one of the factions, and the tyrancise site of Troy was long an object of dis-ny of the other necessarily ensures a tempute among the ancient critics; Strabo, in porary quiet. When I visited the plain of the thirteenth book of his geography, Ilium, I had heard but little of the dispute gives a most accurate account of the in question. I, indeed, knew that some country, and after throwing forth many persons had endeavoured to prove the hints, which, in modern times, have been Trojan war a fable; but I rejected the made good use of, leaves the question un- idea, as a Christian does that of infidelity,, decided. Demetrius, a native of Skepsis, from which, in future life, he guesses a town not situated far from Alexandria much harm may perhaps accrue, while of Troas, passed his life in an unsuccess-with certainty he knows that no bad efful search for the spot, and only concluded that the town in his days called Ilium, could not be, according to the description of Homer, upon the same spot as the ancient city of Priam,

One of these stones has the name of the deceased, elegantly written; to which is added, sometimes in prose, sometimes in verse, a prayer of this or the like form, at the direction of the heir: Dama Allaho halahi rahmataho,-may God shew eternal mercy to him. If a man is buried, upon the top of the stone is a Turkish turban; if a woman, another sort of ornament is placed there. The stone at the feet is the same in both. The sepulchral chapels erected in memory of some saints of Islamism and of the sultans, are called turbeh. These buildings are generally placed in the gardens of the mosques, founded by these princes; they are very richly adorned. The grave, which is in the middle of the chapel, is covered with a wooden chest, wrapped in red velvet, enriched with gold and precious stones, and having different verses 'This Ilium, of which the ruins are of the Koran embroidered on it; towards pretty well determined, was placed near the the side where reclines the head of the sea; its Acropolis was shown as the Perdefunct monarch, is seen a piece of the gamus of Troy. To the north of the hill veil which has covered the shrine of Mec-on which it was erected, flowed a small ca, (for no Moslem must be buried without a piece of that sacred cloth,) over which is a muslin turban. Silver rails, incrusted with mother-of-pearl, surround the grave, at the extremities of which are two lofty chandeliers with tapers. The interior of these chapels is magnificently adorned with marble, porcelain, and

rivulet, which they denominated the Si-
moeis; it united with a stream, or rather
river, which rolled its waters down the
plain from Mount Ida, and threw itself
into the Hellespont; this river was called
the Scamander. Pliny, in his geographi-
cal description of the world, mentions this
modern Ilium in a manner which proves,

fects can ensue from his adhering to the tenets of his ancestors. If it be proved that the truth of the main facts contained in the Iliad is chimerical, what will become of the history attached to them? Are we to betray to all-devouring scepticism so many interesting records? If we prove that Helen, that Paris, that Achilles, that Troy itself never existed, the interest felt in reading the works of Homer must necessarily be diminished, the pleas sure will be no longer so great, and the bard, whose poems have nearly exhausted the whole fund of human knowledge, would be more neglected than even he now is.-Apollo and the muses defend us from so dire a misfortune!

The scenery, as to the islands, the

seas, the mountains, or, in a few words, as to its general features, corresponds, certainly as much as one can expect, with the description of Homer; Lemnos, Imbros, Tenedos, Ida, the Chersonesus, and the Hellespont, are found in the same relative situation as a cursory reader of the Iliad would imagine them to be placed; the plain itself, however, did not answer my expectations.-I did not, certainly, hope to be able to distinguish the very walls of the town; as well might I have expected to have seen the Greek ships arranged upon the strand, or Hector and Achilles striding over the fields; but I thought I should have seen some eminence worthy of being the Pergamus-some river worthy of being called the Scamander; the usual fate of classic travellers awaited me -I was disappointed..

The water was so shallow that we found it impossible to land with dry feet; the sailors offered to carry us on their backs to the shore; the experiment was first tried by an unfortunate Florentine, who, during the whole voyage, had suffered much from sea-sickness, a disorder ever the subject of ridicule among sailors; he mounted the broad shoulders of one of our Istrian seamen, but hardly had he rode fifty yards in this style, before a well-pretended stumble threw him headlong into the sea;-" experientia docet," we tucked up our trowsers, threw off our stockings and shoes, and, with praiseworthy ardour, waded to the land.'

Public Baths at Constantinople. The very frequent recurrence of ablutions, enjoined by the wisdom of Mohammed, to preserve his followers from the disorders produced in a warm climate by an accumulation of dirt on the skin, has caused pious individuals to erect fountains in almost every street of the Turkish cities, and even on the border of the roads, far distant from any town; the tomb of the founder is generally placed in the neighbourhood, and is surrounded with trees, which offer a delightful shade to the wearied traveller. These fountains are generally built in the Moorish style, and adorned with Arabic inscriptions.

To the same precept of cleanliness we may attribute the number of warm baths seen in Turkey; every village has its hammam or public bath, and every large house is provided with the same convenience. These thermæ are heated by a subterraneous vault, which serves as a furnace, and is filled with logs of wood, above which, and immediately below the marble pavement of the building, is a large cauldron of water, which is kept in a constant state of ebullition; tubes placed in the interior of the walls carry off the steam, while others furnish the interior with hot water from the cauldron, and with cold water from a contiguous cistern. The bather, having paid to the keeper of the bath the price of entrance, is shown into a square room, along the walls of which runs a wide seat, covered with cushions; he here leaves his clothes, and

Athenian monuments, and long may the protecting genius of Greece defend it from the defiling touch of the Turkish mason, and the no less destructive dilapidations of European virtuosi.

girding round his body a wide piece of
cotton, which hangs from his waist to his
ancles, and placing his feet in a pair of
wooden clogs, to preserve them from the
burning heat of the floor, he proceeds
through several rooms, successively in- A Wedding at Athens. Every tra-
creasing in warmth, to the interior cham-veller who has visited Athens for a few
ber. This chamber is built in a circular days, returns, with a description of the
shape, and covered by a cupola, in which weddings, burials, and christenings at
there are many openings covered with which he assisted: whether during our
very thick glass, which gives a free passage stay Hymen had ceased to inspire the
to the light, but not to the visual rays of Athenian youths, and death to strike,
the curious; a circular dais on the pave- aquo pede, I cannot determine; but I
mert indicates the position of the caul- assure you, although we remained at
dron, which is immediately underneath; Athens more than a month, we witnessed
small fountains and marble basins are seen no funeral, and were present at one wed-
at equal distances round the wall.' ding only;-the happy couple was not of
Temple of Theseus at Athens. This the highest rank: that you should not,
well-preserved ruin, as I before said, however, accuse my journal of being de-
stands on a large open place, where a ficient in the article of matrimony, I shall
rope maker was exercising his trade when add to this chapter of musty antiquity an
we passed: this spot is enlivened in the account of one of the most extraordinary
evenings with the youthful games of many and ridiculous scenes I ever witnessed.
Athenian boys; it was near this temple, 'It was on a Sunday afternoon; the
according to Pausanias, that stood Ptole heat was excessive, and we were occupied
mey's gymnasium and the forum. A part inarranging our journal; my ear was struck
of the temple is now used as a church, with the monotonous sound of a Greek
dedicated to St. George: it is closed by a tambour, and the noise of people hurry-
door made of flat iron bars, at which the ing through the street: I followed them,
Turks, with most disgraceful impiety, and after turning through two or three
amuse themselves in trying the force of lanes, came to the spot whence the sound
their muskets. In the chancel are the proceeded. Some dirty musicians, with
graves of three English travellers, who a tambour, a fiddle, and a guitar, wefe
have paid the debt of nature in this coun- dancing, playing, and singing; after them
try: one is that of the unfortunate Twed-came a Greek damsel, supported by two
dell by his side is buried a Mr. Walker, grave matrons, and followed by a long
who fell a victim to a fever produced by string of dames hoary with age: she was
fatigue and heat. The inscription upon the bride, and notwithstanding the ther-
Tweddell's grave is engraved in the true mometer stood at 96°, was covered with
antique style, without stops or separa mantles and furs; her fingers' ends and
tions; it cannot be read without consi-joints were stained red; the lower part of
derable attention and study: it is indeed her eyes was tinged with a blue colour,
astonishing that men should be willing to and her cheeks were ornamented with
sacrifice to the mania of imitating the stars of black dye and leaf gold: a dirty
very errors of the ancients, the striking urchin, walking backwards, held a mirror
effect which so beautiful an epitaph would in such a manner that the young woman
produce on every reader were it legible. had her image constantly before her.
A grave was digging for a Mr. Phillips,
who had died while making the tour of
the Morea: he had quitted Athens in
August, a time when disease rages with
violence in the Peloponnesus; relying
upon the strength of his constitution, he
had refused to follow the advice given
him by the consuls to defer his journey
till the autumn: he departed, neglecting
even to provide himself with medicine:
we saw his name scratched upon one of
the columns of a temple in Arcadia, near
which the peasants told us he was seized
with a fever, which threw him into deli-
rium: we recorded his premature death
under his name. By the uneducated,
both Greeks and Mohammedans, it is
imagined that after interment the body of
a Frank is conveyed by some invisible
power to his native land."

The Theseum is comparatively small, but its effect is striking: in shape it is similar to the Parthenon: the beautiful frieze with which it is decorated, represents part of the histories of Hercules and Theseus: it is most entire of all the

"They moved literally at a snail's space; the people threw from their windows and doors bottles of orange water, which perfumed the air, and the crowd, loud in their expressions of joy and congratulation, augmented as we advanced, hurrying round the bride, whose brow was never bent with a frown, and whose lips were never crossed with a smile during the ceremony.

The procession stopped at the house of the bridegroom; the bride was seated in an arm chair, and placed on the right of the house door; on the opposite side was seated her husband, his hairless head uncovered; by him stood a Turkish barber, holding in his hand a circular lookingglass (similar to that with which Venus is represented) and other shaving instru ments: the music continued playing, and the crowd shook the air with their shouts. Each, placing a few parats on the barber's looking-glass, sprinkled with orange wa ter the face of the bridegroom, and kissed him on the forehead and the eyes: the money thus collected was to procure

a comfortable establishment for the young Fipe; by these means, even in the seve-ice, which it was necessary frequently to people; I subscribed my share, but pre-ty of the winter, we could generally en- scrape off; but we never, to my know ferred dispensing with the kisses. A Sure a crop at the end of the sixth or se-ledge, witnessed the conversion of the Greek, an old man, whose age was a suf-venth day after sowing the seed, which, vapour into snow, during its fall.'. ficient excuse for the joke, pushed me to- by keeping several boxes at work, would wards the bride, whom I was consequently obliged to salute amidst the loud cheers of the assembly:-how the ceremony ended I cannot tell you, as the day fell, and I returned home ere all had embraced the bridegroom.'

(To be continued.)

Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the Years 1819-20, in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper, under the Orders of William Edw. Parry, R. N., F. R. S. and Commander of the Expedition.

(Continued from page 310.) CAPTAIN COOK was one of the first navigators that preserved his crew in good health, amidst all the variations of climate, to which a voyage round the world exposed them; to Captain Parry no less praise is due, for his attentions in this respect; and he had the

The distance at which sounds were heard in the open air, during the continuance of intense cold, seems almost incredible. Captain Parry says, people have been distinctly heard conversing in a common tone of voice at the distance of a mile; and he heard a man singing to himself, as he walked along the beech, at even a greater distance than this.' Another circumstance oc

curred scarcely less curious: the smell of smoke was felt so strong at a distance of two miles, leeward of the ships, that it impeded the breathing. This shows to what a distance the smoke was carried horizontally, owing to the difficulty with which it rises at a very low tempe

give to two or three scorbutic patients nearly an ounce of salad each daily, even though the necessary economy in our coals did not allow of the fire being kept in at night. Had this been allowable, and a proper apparatus at hand for the purpose, there is no doubt that it might have been raised much more rapidly and those who are aware how perfect a specific a very small quantity of fresh vegetable substance is for the scurvy, will, perhaps, agree with me in thinking that such an apparatus would form a very va luable appendage to be applied occasionally to the cabin-stove. The mustard and Cress thus raised were necessarily colourless, from the privation of light, but, as far as we could judge, they possessed the same pungent aromatic taste as if grown under ordinary circum-tances. So effecrature of the atmosphere. On the 15th tual were these remedies in Mr. Scallon's of February the thermometer was at This was the most case, that, on the ninth evening from the 55° below zero. attack, he was able to walk about on the severe cold during their stay in Win lower deck for some time, and he assured ter Harbour; and, although the of me that he could then "run a race.' ficers amused themselves with freezOn the morning of the 1st of January, ing mercury and beating it out on an a halo, whose radius was 22° 30', with anvil, (such was the intensity of the gratification of seeing every officer and three paraselence, which were very lu- cold) yet not the slightest inconveniman on hoard both ships, (with only minous, but not tinged with the pris-ence was suffered from exposure to the one exception out of ninety-four per-matic colours was seen about the sons) return to their native country in moon; and, on the following day, the as robust health as when they left it, after an absence of nearly eighteen addition of a vertical stripe of white same phenomenon occurred, with the months. Even the scurvy, so fatal a light proceeding from the upper and scourge in high northern latitudes, was lower limbs of the moon, and forming, kept under or subdued in a most remarkable manner. with part of the horizontal circle, the The first instance of this disease occurring was in the be-after, the aurora borealis was seen; but appearance of a cross; and a few days ginning of January, 1820, when Mr. neither the magnetic needle nor the Scallon, the gunner, was afflicted with gold leaf of the electrometer were in the it. This was found to have been occasioned by the deposit of moisture in his slightest degree affected by it. Captain Parry and his crew did not bed-place; and here we may mention another instance of the equality of the even when 49° degree below zero, experience those effects from the cold, dangers shared by all-that from the si- which preceding voyagers have stated: tuation of the officers' bed-places, mois-such as, the dreadful sensation said to

long as the weather was perfectly calm; open air, by a person well clothed, as wind, a smarting sensation was expe but in walking against a very light rienced all over the face, accompanied by a pain in the middle of the fore head, which soon became rather severe.' tion of ice, formed in the harbour, from As a specimen of the average propor September to March, it is stated that where the depth of water was four fathoms and a quarter, the ice was found to be six feet and a half thick, and the We have already stated, that some of snow on the surface eight inches deep. the crew were absent for four days from

ture and ice accumulated much more be produced on the lungs, when the the ships, having rambled to a consirapidly in them than in those of the air is inhaled at a very low temperature; inen. The means adopted for the reor the with which an vapour inhabited covery of the gunner will afford a' good hint to voyagers, and even to those room is charged, condensing into a shower of snow, immediately on the "Gentlemen of England, who live at home at opening of a door or window. He

ease,

And little think upon the dangers of the seas.'

says

This goes much beyond any thing that Every attention was paid to Mr. Scal- we had an opportunity of observing. lon's case by the medical gentlemen, and What happened with us was simply this: all our anti-scorbutics were put in requi- on the opening of the doors at the top and sition for his recovery: these consisted bottom of our hatchway ladders, the vaprincipally of preserved vegetables, soups, pour was immediately condensed by the lemon juice and sugar, pickles, preserved sudden admission of the cold air, into a currants and gooseberries, and spruce- visible form, exactly resembling a very beer. I began also, about this time, to thick smoke, which settled on all the panraise a small quantity of mustard and cress nels of the doors and bulk-heads, and imin my cabin, in small shallow boxes filled mediately froze, by which means the lat with mould, and placed along the stove-ter were covered with a thick coating of

Peter Fisher, a seamen of the Griper, derable distance, and lost their way. was of the party, and had scratched on a stone the initials of his name. Of this seaman there is an interesting anecdote:

When Mr. Fife and his party returned from that excursion, it was a matter of sur prise to us, to see how fresh Fisher was, and how little he seemed to regard what had happened, as any thing out of the common way, of which, indeed, the circumstance just related, is also a proof. When asked, on his first arrival on board on that occasion, what they had lived upon, "lived upon," said Fisher, dryly, "the Duke of Wellington never lived so well. We had grouse for breakfast,

to be sure!"

America snow-blindness:

these were

grouse for dinner, and grouse for supper, being suspended by a triangle made of the largest of the herd, and constantly three spars; one cut being made on the drove the others away when they attemptOn the 12th of May, some ptarmi-outer part of the trench, and a second ed to stop. The birds seen by our peogans were seen, which were hailed as à within an inch or two of the bends, in or-ple were many brent-geese and ptarmisure omen of returning summer. der to avoid injuring the planks. A small gans, several golden plovers, one or two SeOne or veral men went out on shooting ex- portion of ice being broken off now and boatswains" (Lestris Parasiticus), and then by bars, handspikes, and ice-chisels, abundance of snow-buntings. cursions, and being exposed for several floated to the surface, and was hooked out two mice (Mus Hudsonius) were caught; hours to the glare of the sun and by piecemeal. This operation was a cold like several others we had seen, snow, became affected with that pain-and tedious one, and required nine days turning brown about the belly and head, ful inflammation in the eyes, called in to complete it. When the workmen had and the back was of a dark grey colour. this morning completed the trench within In every part of the island over which we ten or twelve feet of the stern, the ship travelled, the holes and tracks of these suddenly disengaged herself from the ice little animals were occasionally seen; one to which she had before been firmly ad- of them, which Serjeant Martin ran after, hering on the larboard side, and rose in finding no hole near, and that he could the water about ten inches abaft, and not escape, set himself against a stone, as nearly eighteen inches forward, with a if endeavouring to defend himself, and bit considerable surge. This disengagement, the serjeant's finger when he took hold of to which the sailors naturally applied the him." term "launching," confirmed my supposition, that the ship was held so fast by the ice, as to make it dangerous to alter materially the stowage of the holds, but in a manner the very reverse of what I had apprehended.'

This complaint, of which the sensa tion exactly resembles that produced by large particles of sand or dust in the eyes, is cured by some tribes of American In dians, by holding them over the steam of warm water; but we found a cooling wash, made of a small quantity of acetate of lead mixed with cold water, more efficacious in relieving the irritation, which was always done in three or four days, even in the most severe cases, provided the eyes were carefully guarded from the light. As a preventive of this complaint, a piece of black crape was given to each man, to be worn as a kind of short veil

attached to the hat, which we found to be

very serviceable; a still more convenient mode, adopted by some of the officers, was found equally efficacious; this consisted in taking the glasses out of a pair of spectacles, and substituting black or green crape, the glass having been found to heat the eyes and increase the irritation.'

On the 17th of May, the operation of cutting the ice round the Hecla was completed, and the ships were once more fairly a-float. This was peformed in the following manner:

The ice alongside the ships was found to be six feet thick, being about eighteen inches less than the average thickness of it in Winter Harbour, owing

principally to our having continued to cut it round the ships for some time after the commencement of the winter, and in part, perhaps, to the snow with which it had there been thickly covered. We began by digging a large hole under the stern, being the same as that in which the tidepole was placed, in order to enter the saw, which occupied us nearly two days, only a small number of men being able to work at it. In the mean time, all the snow and rubbish was cleared away from the ship's side, leaving only the solid ice to work upon; and a trench, two feet wide, was cut the whole length of the starboard side, from the stem to the rudder, keeping within an inch or two of the bends, and taking care here and there to leave a dike, to prevent the water which might ooze into one part from filling up the others in which the men were working. In this manner was the trench cut with axes, to the depth of about four feet and a half, leaving only eighteen inches for the saws to cut, except in those places where the dikes remained. The saw being then entered in the hole under the stern, was worked in the usual manner,

Ve

As the weather got warmer, the. crews were enabled to procure a good supply of sorrel, which grew very ra pidly near Winter Harbour; the sportsmen began to be successful, and a tolerable quantity of fresh provisions were thus procured. The total quantity obtained for the use of the expedition, during their stay upon the shores of Melville Island, nearly a period of twelve months, was as follows:-three musk-oxen, 24 deer, 68 hares, 53 geese, 59 ducks, and 144 ptarmigans, affording, in the whole, 3766 pounds of meat. (To be concluded in our next.)

The North Georgia Gazette, and Winter Chronicle. 4to. pp. 132. London, 1821.

In the beginning of June, Captain Parry, accompanied by a party of offia journey cers and men, set out on across Melville Island, to the northern shore; and they returned to the ships by a different route, on the 15th. The island was thus very satisfactorily explored. The journey was, however, unproductive; the soil is generally barren, though, in some places, rich and abounding with the finest moss. getation only exists in some places, and the botanical collections were very limited. Game was more abun- THIS work furnishes a pleasing instance dant near the sea than inland. The of the amiable character of the comtracks of deer and musk oxen were nu-mander of the late expedition, and of merous and recent; and one deer fol- the good nature and social cheerfullowed the party for some time, and ness which must have reigned among gambolled around them at a distance his little band of adventurers under of only thirty yards. On the 13th of circumstances so novel and appalling To relieve Juneas they had to encounter. The sportsmen went out early in the morning, and soon after met with a musk- the tedium of a winter passed in the ox feeding on a spot of luxuriant pasture- arctic seas, and to keep alive the enground, covered with the dung of these thusiastic spirit of the crews, the officers animals, as well as of deer. They fired adopted two expedients: those of openat him from a considerable distance, with- ing a theatre and commencing a weekly out wounding him, and he set off at a very newspaper, to be furnished with origiquick pace over the hills. The musk-ox nal contributions only. The managehas the appearance of a very ill-propor-ment of the theatre was confided to tioned little animal, its hair being so long Lieutenant Beechey, who painted the as to make its feet appear only two or three inches in length; they seem, indeed, scenery; and Captain Sabine underto be treading upon it at every step, and took the charge of editing the paper. the individual in question actually did so In the proposals, it was recommended in some instances, as the hair was found in that an anonymous signature should be When dis- affixed to each communication, and several of the foot-tracks. turbed and hunted, they frequently tore that the handwriting should be effecup the ground with their horns, and turn- tually disguised, to ensure the most ed round occasionally to look at their pur-rigid impartiality in judging and sesuers, but they never attempted to attack rigid impartiality in judging and seany of them. Our gentlemen also met lecting the articles for insertion. with a herd of twelve deer, three only of editor's letter-box was placed on the which had horns, and they were much capstan of the Hecla, and the first num

The

be repeated, and the Little Bear (like a dutiful cub,) followed his example. Taurus tossed him, Aries butted him, and he was thus left sprawling between Castor and Pollux. This malicious pair of + The individuals engaged in celestial obrogues pretending friendship, led the de-servations, whose noses were frequently frostponent on imperceptibly, till he found bitten by coming in contact with the telehimself in the claws of Cancer, who scopes.' pinched him most unmercifully, and determined him to have nothing more to do