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WARMING APPARATUS. [November, 



to the skeleton shown by b in the diagram ; others were 

 mere remnants. 



About this period I gave way to the snow and gra- 

 vel covering on the decks ; not from conviction, but for 

 peace and quietness. To Commander Richards I do not 

 ascribe any such feeling of pressure ; but he was evi- 

 dently worked upon by constant dinning, elsewhere, into 

 the belief that it was his duty to urge me to satisfy this 

 "former cruise mania;" and if any fancied themselves 

 warmer, the object was gained. The Sylvester would not 

 act, and I very much regretted the absence of Perkins' 

 hot-water tubes, for those I knew how to control they 

 were fitted in my own house, in the ' Terror,' and I could 

 command their services up to any temperature. Know- 

 ledge is power ; but no knowledge here could make Syl- 

 vester's apparatus work without an enormous consump- 

 tion of fuel ; and let it be remembered, that in both these 

 vessels it failed on the late Expedition. On the other 

 hand, I know that with Perkins the difficulty consists in 

 moderating the heal. It is a matter beyond controversy, 

 that if the initial heat is generated in Perkins, it must 

 pursue its course throughout its coil, and distribute its 

 heat before it returns to the furnace ; but Sylvester dis- 



