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allowed them to be. there fat hours until they were heyy se frozen 
through, and would rattle in the basket like pine kne When thawed 
out in cold water, they would wriggle and move rer as good as new. 
J. H. Bacon, of Westchester, Mauss, ., says he has taken tomcod out of 
the river, allowed them to freeze, carried them to Boston and has seen 
them come alive when thawed. William Ruminel, of Jersey Citv, N.J., 
caught some perch in the Hackensack river, in 1836, which froze 
quickly, he carried them to market which was very dull, he then packed 
them in snow for three weeks, and after this, when applying pump wa- 
ter to them, pe twenty-five in thirty swam about in the e 
says if fish be frozen in moderate weather, and take a long time to do 
so, they will not return to life. Robert Pike, of Wakefield, N. H., says 
he has caught brook trout in January, which froze through in a few 
minutes, and which, after five hours, when he took them home:and put 
them in a tub of cold water, swam around quite lively. Thomas Power, 
of Hudson, N. Y., says he has’ seen fish which were frozen as hard as 
rock come’to life when thawed in cold water. The fish were yellow 
perch found in the Hudson river. D. H. Quail, of -- sane ep no- 
ticing the statement of Prof. Lathrop, says he has caught 
Jersey, near Fortescue’s Beach, in Delaware Bay, in eae in sh fol- 
— manner, —- is interesting : he says, “ wot procured a small 
me w 
Deangfasls of eit ‘Spriogheld, Conn., * says he has soni perch, pick- 
erel, trout, and carp, in winter, allowed them to freeze, carried them 
for csiliet aad when thawed out in well water, not one in six but would 
come to life. He adds, they can be carried to any distance if kept 
fruzen, but if not frozen quickly after being caught, “they will not 
come too,” this he has always noticed. By this, it ss Ap that if a 
pear time elapses between the period when: the fish is taken 
out of the river and thawed they tops be resuscitate 
Ransom Cook, of Saratoga, N: Y., toe ¢ observing 1 man, adds a new 
fact to this store of information on ihe subject: He says, that all fish 
— have been frozen and resuscitated, have their sense of sight de- 
vee tia aed all become blind. 
. The Climatology of Arctic America in reference to “9 fate of 
pe John Franklin, (Edin. New Phil. Jour., Jan., 1852, lii, 180.)— 
“ The idea of a cycle of good and bad seasons has often Ad mooted . 
by m Yeadon and has frequently recurred to my thoughts when 
endeavoring to find a reason for the ease with which at some periods of 
bsequent o 
connect such facts with the fate of the discovery ships. Bur neither 
the periods assigned, nor the facts adduced to prove fo oe ie 
writers, have been presented in» I 
with them, until very erase » Mr. Glaisher, in a rivet fe 
