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be daily accumulating in the vallies and ravines in 
our neighbourhood. The man (John Pearson,,. 
marine), belonging to the Griper, whom I men- 
tioned, on the 10th instant, as having returned in 
a state of stupor and very much frost-bitten, has 
had this afternoon the four fingers of his left hand 
amputated, in consequence of the injury he re- 
ceived at that time. He has not lost the whole 
of these fingers, but only the extreme pha- 
langes, and part of the second of the three largest 
of them, and the two extreme and part of the 
third phalanx of the little finger. It is unneces- 
sary to state that every means was used at the 
time the man came on board, and, indeed, for 
several days afterwards, to restore life in the parts 
that were frost-bitten ; and, considerable as the loss 
has. been, it is but just to observe, that the treat- 
ment pursued has been productive of greater suc- 
cess than could in the beginning have been ex- 
pected, for the whole hand appeared at first to be 
in imminent danger when he came on board, being 
as hard as a piece of marble. 
_ As the ships are now housed and secured, and 
the days getting so short that neither officers nor 
men can amuse or employ themselves by excur- 
sions to the country, two intended sources of 
amusement are about to be set on foot for the 
purpose of making the long approaching winter 
pass as cheerfully as possible. One of these 
inventions, which is a weekly newspaper, called 
‘© The Winter Chronicle, or New Georgia Ga- 
zette,”? has already commenced, for the first num- 
ber of it came out yesterday morning ; and the 
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