360 LAST VOYAGE OF CAPT. ROSS. 
“ An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man abound- 
eth in transgression/’ 
Never did a love-sick girl, who had made an appointment to 
meet her lover at the conventicle of Clayton, of Andrews, or of 
Melville, hear with greater pleasure the last amen pronounced, 
which was to be the signal for them to hasten toward each other, 
after a tedious, and apparently to them a personal discourse, taken 
from the text, of “ set not thy affections on things of this earth;” 
never did a shoeless, but not a sowZ-less poet in his attic residence 
evince greater pleasure on arriving at the close of a didactic 
poem, on the colossal powers of steam, or the beauties of the her¬ 
ring fishery, which is to put the erudite fraternity of Publishers 
resident in the vicinity of the purling streams, and academic 
groves of Warwick Lane, and Paternoster Row, into a ferment 
of competition for the purchase of the copyright, thereby furnish¬ 
ing another instance to a captious and unbelieving world, of the 
extreme liberality, which distinguishes that body of men, in all 
their dealings with authors—never was delight more strongly 
imprinted on the countenance of either of those characters, than 
was on the visage of Capt. Ross, when the monitor arrived at the 
end of the chapter, and the congregation rose to retire to their 
respective berths, te ponder on the wholesome truths, which 
they had heard. 
Qui capit , ille fecit is an adage as old as any of the icebergs, 
which so criminally conspired to obstruct Capt. Ross in his 
discovery of the North West Passage, and a great deal older 
than Capt. Ross himself, but like all other apothegms, it generally 
inflicts a sting on those, to whom it is applied ; in order however 
that it might never again be applicable to himself, as far as the 
sentiments contained in a chapter of the Bible were concerned, 
he issued his orders, that henceforth the chapter for the evening 
reading should not be taken in rotation, but should be selected 
by some competent person, in order, as he expressed himself to 
avoid all personalities, which he was fully aware are apt to 
engender strife, and stir up the blood to feuds and discord. 
In a previous part of this work, we have alluded to the task 
which was generally imposed upon the women, of restoring the 
