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milk from a goat which was buried with them. 
In neither case was there extreme suffering 
from cold, and it is unquestionable that the in- 
terior of a drift is far warmer than the surface. 
The process of crystallization seems a mi- 
crocosm of the universe. Radiata, mollusca, 
feathers, flowers, ferns, mosses, palms, pines, 
grain-fields, leaves of cedar, chestnut, elm, acan- 
thus: these and multitudes of other objects 
are figured on your frosty window; on sixteen 
different panes I have counted sixteen patterns 
strikingly distinct, and it appeared like a show- 
case for the globe. What can seem remoter 
relatives than the star, the starfish, the star- 
flower, and the starry snowflake which clings 
this moment to your sleeve ?— yet some philo- 
sophers hold that one day their law of existence 
will be found precisely the same. The connec- 
tion with the primeval star, especially, seems 
far and fanciful enough, but there are yet unex- 
plored affinities between light and crystalliza- 
tion: some crystals have a tendency to grow 
toward the light, and others develop electricity 
and give out flashes of light during their forma- 
tion. Slight foundations for scientific fancies, 
indeed, but slight is all our knowledge. 
More than a hundred different figures of 
snowflakes, all regular and kaleidoscopic, have 
been drawn by Scoresby, Lowe, and Glaisher, 
