. Mysterious discovery of nature, shown in a dream to Dr. P. Polack, and relating directly to the question of the discovery of the North pole. Facts governing the movements of the earth, and many important secrets of nature that have never been given to the world up to this day are shown to him. which will enable such menas you and I, who have navigated the waters and trav-eled the earth ever so many times, to know exactly howthings are without actual observation, and I can de-scribe to you pretty closely how things look at the the pole there is nothing but an open sea of salt water,an
. Mysterious discovery of nature, shown in a dream to Dr. P. Polack, and relating directly to the question of the discovery of the North pole. Facts governing the movements of the earth, and many important secrets of nature that have never been given to the world up to this day are shown to him. which will enable such menas you and I, who have navigated the waters and trav-eled the earth ever so many times, to know exactly howthings are without actual observation, and I can de-scribe to you pretty closely how things look at the the pole there is nothing but an open sea of salt water,and the terrific winds that strike it lash it to a foam,to a boiling, seething cauldron, and the roar of it canbe heard many miles inland. The atmosphere is filledwith a dark and heavy fog, which, as it rises, formsclouds, and at about three degrees south of the pole youwill find snow flurries and snow blizzards. At aboutfour or five degrees south of the pole the winds con-tract one another, and clouds from every direction cometogether with a horrible pressure, and this is the worstand the severest zone in the world. The snow comesdown, heavy and continual, and the eighty-fifth andeighty-sixth degrees are known to explorers as theperilous parallel. No man has ever crossed this parallel,18. Diagram showing position of the Xorth Star in relation to theNorth Pole and the entire globe. TO TAKE OBSERVATIONS. and no explorers need try to pass any farther norththan from the eighty-third to eighty-fourth. Well, Captain, you dont mean to say that theweather is the same there the year around? No, no. In the summer the wind blows just thesame, but there is not so much snow, as the days aretoo long and the sun is too strong. Then at that time there is a- chance for explorersto cross that parallel. You might think so, but the summer is just as badas the winter. The sun melts and levels the snow, andgives it the appearance of solid ice, but woe to thetraveler who attempts to cross, for the sal
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