enduring spirit: we have seen Winter and Spring; and shall we not behold the full rejoicing of the complete year? The hour shall come, nor shall the longing heart in that dark interval be all unblest with glance prophetic. Though no meteor shape glare from the speaking sky, no sheeted ghost wander dim-moving in the weird midnight, with such forshadowings true as ever wait on him who, with a calm and reverend eye, hath viewed the mysteries of things, and dared to image forth the future from the past--bind on the mystic robe, and from the brow of Hope's enchanted hill look boldly forth upon the coming ages. Saw ye not white fog-wreaths floating through the cold gray dawn over ice-laden billows, as they roll through yon rock-cinctured chasm? A dusky shape looms through the hazy atmosphere, and sails, as of some struggling bark that wearily breasts the opposing strength of angry waves,[23] float with a fitful motion to and fro. Still on and on--a breath-suspending sight of pale Solicitude, and fearful hope--and hark! the triple crash of Britain's joy, the magical music of her wild hurra, peals with a sound of mighty exultation through the aerial depths. The cloven mist unwraps its folded canopy, and lo! the blue Pacific, boundlessly outspread, far glitters in the silvery light of morn. FOOTNOTES: [10] Columbus. [11] The phenomenon which is commonly called Aurora Borealis, is in high latitudes frequently seen to the south. [12] On entering the Arctic Circle, the musical sounds of the white whales is first heard. [13] Modern discoverers have frequently found an open passage in latitudes, where chains of hills were laid down in the old charts. [14] The effect of the change of temperature at the beginning of winter is almost instantaneous, as young ice at the thickness of half an inch will stop a large vessel in full sail. [15] Captain Parry found considerable advantage from raising a wall of snow round the ship, in its winter station. [16] The theatrical amusements, which were introduced during the stay of the Fury and Hecla at Melvile Island, are well known. [17] Alluding to the following lines of Mr. Wordsworth:-- ----"Pleasure is spread throughout the earth, In stray gifts, to be claim'd by whoever shall find." [18] The beautiful effect of these Arctic Oases is described in the account of Captain Parry's second voyage. [19] See the speech attributed by Socrates to Diotima in the Banquet of Plato. [20] Sir Martin Frobisher, who in 1577 anchored on the Western coast of Greenland, reported that in that country "the stones be altogether sparkled, and glister in the sun like gold." [21] Hudson. [22] Baron Wrangle. RECOLLECTIONS OF PAGANINI.