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[[underlined]] furca, tamen usque recurret[[/underlined]] :-"You may turn Nature out of doors with violence, but she will return"- And he might have continued: Though an Esquimaux's [[insertion]] bowels [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] abdomen [[/strikethrough]] should be [[insertion]] much [[/insertion]] contracted by [[insertion]] a pair of [[/insertion]] New London [[insertion]] made [[/insertion]] pants of the Ninteenth Century!
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July 7th 1860, Saturday

After dancing around the harbor of Holsteinborg for many hours, we have, at length, made anchor [[underlined]] within [[/underlined]] it.
During the last two & three days a fog of [[strikethrough]] terrible [[/strikethrough]] remarkable Character has troubled us in making harbor. All at once, the whole Heavens would be clear & bright - in five minutes a thick fog would encircle us all around, shutting out sun-light, view of a long ridge of Greenland mountains - the sharply defined horizon, the islands & Icebergs. Before coming to the North, I thought I was prepared to give a fair statement of the true theory of Fogs. I now am satisfied that no one can give a satisfactory reason for the appearance