. Rural essays . Ornamental Ice House above gToi^ncI. Ornamental Ice House atove ground XL HOW TO BUILD ICE-HOUSES. December, 1846. THE ICE-HOUSE and tlie hot-house, types of Lapland and theTropics, are two contrivances whicli ciAalization has invented forthe comfort or luxury of man. A native of the Sandwich Islands,who lives, as he conceives, in the most delicious climate in the world,and sleeps away the best part of his life in that happy state whichthe pleasure-loving Italians call c?o?ce far nicnte (sweet do no-thing)—smiles and shudders when he hears of a region where hisfamiliar trees m
. Rural essays . Ornamental Ice House above gToi^ncI. Ornamental Ice House atove ground XL HOW TO BUILD ICE-HOUSES. December, 1846. THE ICE-HOUSE and tlie hot-house, types of Lapland and theTropics, are two contrivances whicli ciAalization has invented forthe comfort or luxury of man. A native of the Sandwich Islands,who lives, as he conceives, in the most delicious climate in the world,and sleeps away the best part of his life in that happy state whichthe pleasure-loving Italians call c?o?ce far nicnte (sweet do no-thing)—smiles and shudders when he hears of a region where hisfamiliar trees must be kept in glass houses, and the water turns, nowand then, into solid, cold crystal! Yet, if happiness, as some philosophers have affirmed, consistsin a variety of sensations, we denizens of temperate latitudes havegreatly the advantage of him. What surprise and pleasure awaitsthe Sandwich Islander, for example, like that we experience on en-tering a spacious hot-house, redolent of blossoms and of perfume, inmid-winter, or on refreshing our ex
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