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Since they could not account for this by cold, they concluded that the most probable explanation lay in the tremendous hurricanes that, produced by the planet's rapid rotation, frequently swept along its surface, like the earth's trade-winds, but with far more violence.
Further observations have indicated that the movement is most rapid on the surface and least at the bottom, in which the stream is also riverlike. It is evident, in a word, that though the ice is not fluid in strict sense, the bits of which it is made up move in substantially the manner of fluids that is, they freely slip over each other.
"Where are we going?" inquired Newton of a man who stood next him, silently watching the passing foam created by the rapid course of the vessel. "To hell I hope, with those who brought us here!" replied the man, grinding his teeth with a scowl of deep revenge. At this moment Judy Malony came pattering along the wet deck with a kid of potato-peelings to throw over the bows.
Brown came again. I had two interviews with him alone. I told him distinctly that life-preservers were necessary. I probably told him we did not wear them all the time, but I told him we put them on at every dangerous rapid, and I showed him the picture in the Major's Report where we were wearing them. I clearly remember telling him to have one arm above and one below the preserver.
Their inflammable contents undoubtedly aided the flames in their rapid progress. Captain Titus, who was on the upper deck at the time of the explosion, rushed to the ladies' cabin to obtain the life-preservers, of which there were about one hundred on board; but, so violent was the heat, he found it impossible to enter the cabin.
In a low but more composed voice Katherine gave a rapid account of the circumstances which led to her residence with her uncle: of her intense desire to help the dear mother whose burden was almost more than she could bear; then of the change which came to the old miser his increasing interest in herself, and finally of his expressed intention to change his will as she hoped, in her favor; of her leaving it, by his direction, in the writing-table drawer; of his terribly sudden death.
But her thoughts, always rapid, soon worked out a semblance of order from the confusion that filled her mind, and she dried her eyes and began to review her conduct in the light that others probably judged her.
It was almost eight before she got through; and she ran upstairs for her bonnet and shawl, and started for her customary half-hour's walk before breakfast. She took the road leading to the village, still and deserted, and came back all glowing from the rapid exercise. Captain Danton stood on the front steps smoking a meerschaum pipe, as she came up the avenue.
Lawrence, started at daylight, I presume, about four hours ago, just about the time I perceived a change in the atmosphere myself. This, at the rapid headway you perceive they are making, would give them time to get here by this hour of the day." "Then you take this as an indication of the approach of winter weather?" "I do.
Near the base of this ridge we crossed a small but rapid stream in which there is a remarkable cascade of about fifty feet. Some Indians joined us here and gave information respecting the situation of Dr. Richardson's tent, which our hunters considered was sufficient for our guidance, and therefore proceeded as quickly as they could.
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