us, so far as our rotation and revolution went: our
inertia was theirs; all the fatal, Fly-Wheels had given
them was an additional motion in space of their own.

This was the last despatch before daylight of Sunday
morning; and the terrible snow-storm of March, sweeping
our hemisphere, cut off our communication with them, both
at Tamworth and No. 9, for several days.

But here was ample food for reflection. Our friends
were in a world of their own, all thirty-seven of them
well, and it seemed they had two more little girls added
to their number since they started. They had plenty of
vegetables to eat, with prospect of new tropical
varieties according to Dr. Darwin. Rob. Shea was sure
that they carried up hens; he said he knew Mrs. Whitman
had several Middlesexes and Mrs. Leonard two or three
Black Spanish fowls, which had been given her by some
friends in Foxcroft. Even if they had not yet had time
enough for these to develop into Alderneys and venison,
they would not be without animal food.


When at last it cleared off, Haliburton had to
telegraph: "Repeat from 21"; and this took all his
cambric, though he had doubled his stock. Orcutt replied
the next night:

22. "I can see your storms. We have none. When we
want to change climate we can walk in less than a minute