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The Daily Dispatch: August 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Cooling Reflections. (search)
Cooling Reflections.
In the absence of ice, the most available refreshment we know of is to read Dr. Kane's lectures on the Arctic Expedition.
With the aid of a strong imagination, it is possible in reading such an account as this to keep cool.
Dr. Kane states that the cold came upon the voyagers gradually, but in the second week of September it showed its power.
The water casks froze, and it became necessary to quarry out the ice and melt it before it could be used.
By-and-by the waters of the sea congealed around them, and they were glued up in fixed ice. Moisture began to be everything being froze perfectly dry. All their eatables froze into a mass of laughable solidification.
Sugar was soon cut with a saw, butter with a chisel, beef with an axe and crowbar!
The chill — the sensation of "cold" which at home is a temporary change of state — was here unknown — cold, of a highly wrought intensity, the one unvarying condition.
When the mercury froze, alcohol is th<