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to make himself imperfectly understood by them, and also to com- 
prehend their meaning. On the first introduction taking place, 
the natives inquired whether their visitors came from the Sun or 
the Moon? The Esquimaux told them neither ; but from a large 
country a great distance—from the south. They said this was 
impossible, as there was nothing to the southward but uninha- 
bitable ice. It was with great difficulty that they could be 
convinced of their error, or led to regard our countrymen in any 
other light than as beings from some other planet. On being 
taken on board the vessels, they manifested the utmost surprise 
at every thing theysaw. They could not for some time be per- 
suaded that the ships were not animals, and possessed the power 
of speaking ; and when told that they were of the nature of 
houses, intimated that could not be, since the former went back- 
wards and forwards, while houses were stationary. They re- 
peatedly handled the clothes of the crews, and could not conceive 
what sort of skins they were made of; their own covering being 
wholly of that description. Of bread or grain they knew not 
the use ; and on being induced to put some of the former into 
their mouths, after masticating it for some time, spat it out again 
as tasteless. Their own food, it appears, was chiefly fish and 
blubber. They had never seen any timber, and were quite igno- 
rant of its properties : so that one of them on going aboard, and 
seeing a mast laid on the deck, attempted to take it up in his 
hands, as if he conceived it to be devoid of weight. Another of 
them, on being taken into the cabin and showh his image in a 
mirror, started back with surprise, and could not, until after re- 
peated assurances and experiments, be convinced ‘that there was 
not some person behind the mirror. They appeared to have no 
idea of a God, or of a future state; nor do they seem, from what 
we can learn, to have any enemies, but suppose themselves sole 
monarchs of the universe.” — 
STEAM ENGINES IN CORNWALL. 
From Messrs. Leaus’ Report for October 1818, it appears that 
the following was the work performed during that month, by the 
engines reported, with each bushel of coals. 
Pounds of water lifted | Load per square 
1 foot high with each buskel.| inch in cylinder. 
25 common enginesaveraged = 22,345,707 various. 
Woolt’s at Wheal Vor ee §=1815685,292 17°8 lib. 
Ditto Wh. Abraham .. 40,975,703 16°8 
Ditto ditto .. .» 21,647,880 6°7 
Wheal Abraham engine .. 32,265,906 109 
United Mines ditto o- = 84,283,211 17:9 
Treskirby ditto .. .. 88,059,312 11:3 
Wheal Chance ditto .. 31,369,231 | 12-2 
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