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...museum at Brown University has been remodelled and its capacities extended on the inside. Brown proposes to send out a large scientific expedition next June for the purpose of collecting specimens for the museum, and of making scientific observations. A vessel will be chartered and thirty volunteers students, under Prof. Packard's direction, will take part in the expedition. The trip will extend as far as Nova Scotia...
...vessel of war is much needed on the northern lakes, and it is proposed to expend $300,000 in constructing a suitable...
...Gloucester fishing schooner has picked up some ship wrecked men from a Nova Scotia vessel, who have suffered terrible privations from hunger and cold...
Will said that the bald-head was like the north star, inasmuch as it was a polar luminary. It was also like a glass tube in a vessel of mercury, as it had no capillary attraction. Remembering my experience previous to the semi-annuals, I ventured the comparison, that a bald-head was like a high mark in N. H. 3; it made a fellow groan to get it, but once his, he would not part with it for the world...
...Rosa was the larger boat, but, with all Mr. Carlin's boasted seamanship, she was not well managed. 'I 'm ruther afeerd ther's a storm comin',' muttered Captain Scuffles, with an anxious look; and he let loose the sheets a little. The vessel careened and shivered, and leapt forward over the waves. It was now past noon, and the captain opened the suspiciously large package, and passed it to me. I had eaten scarcely any breakfast, and, in spite of the absorbing excitement, the sight of food made me hungry. I acknowledged that he had been wiser than...