JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE THROUGH THE
1792. On the 27th the froft was fa fevere that the axes dfthe workmen he- December. :
—v— came almoft as brittle as glafs. The weather was very various until the
2d of December, when my’Faremheit’s; thermometer was injured by an
accident, Which rendered it al together » ufelefs. *: The5 following table,
therefore, from the tbth o f November, to this unfortunate: eirenm.
fiance, isthe-bnly oohEeét account-of the wsèather which I can ocfer.
-aa s 9
Month a
. ' ;;Vear:
a -
1
■X
6
£
A
Wind.*
Weather,
j Èfour.
1 bëlow o.’i ’
;;Cf
6
Weather,
Hour P.
| bdiôw p.’
alcove Q,
in dP
Weather.
'W
Nov. i£ 1 10
1 Meat1. :
12 0 *4 6, M 1 lcuidv
M 8* (»7 ,12 clear' H i 23
es 9 >9 ESE 12 21 ESE 6 B 14 ESE
* $ 8 P NW
ditto
12 12 NW 9 s w jjf ip ll i S t ia^ gw iM .1 fc
a'ffl8t É1 12 1-4 — ,di(;tQ - 1 6). *9 —i— cloudy î l 8 at Selow, 0.
(cloudy
-i-2 25 6 5 23 Rsvêi- ft*|>pedi •
22
»!
n 12 m — — cloudy « 23 ---- - d.oiidy. Ifre dicryc. and water r Tes. *3 2 Ï 8 i ' clear. 1ST — clear pB©«15 m leè -WiT'Ibjïlrai mü
8,-s g B d itto - 12 0J fE . l,-6brt. cloudv
ÜSo *4 ditto 1 2 4 }Wk — , clear j SiéNWÈSifefi^Hé ïihc&ei;: 9 10 “n" ditto 12 2 N. 0mm ditto
27 8 2; ditto 12 2 s w . ditto
28 8 16 — ditto 12 3 —— [6. 7 s . ditto After dark, caflu
z 9 7t 4— cloudy 12 i:3— r« * 7 ___ ditto ! aitro> a üittle witid, S. W . |
Dec.
3 ° 9 4! 12 *3 à. cloddy [fa '.16 ' s. cloud\
2
P
91
10
m, j j§
12 &;e *. p# 24 S .E . rsétefti lw%tàaitbe§AÉ|ffpft.
In thiafituation, removed from all tho& read)^Md& v^iGlv>a4 d fo muc||
to the comfort, and indeed is a principalchara^eriftic p£fciyil-i:fed life,
I W under the neceffity of employing ray--Judgment and expedience, in
acceffory circutpflances, by no means copnc^d wjl^ |he habits of;,j$«y
life, or the enterprife in which I was immediately engaged. X. was-now
among a people who had no knowledge whatever of remedial application
rioh to thofe diforders and accidents to .which man is liable in every part
o f the globe, in $he diftant witdlrneft, as in the peopled city. ’ They had
not'the leaf! acquaintance Mth that prinaitivei medicine which confifts in
amexperience ofthe healing virouds offherbi and-plants, and is? frequently
found among uncivil iled and lavage nations. This circumftance now
obliged me to be their phyfician and furgeon, as a woman with a {Veiled
fereafl, which* had been lacerated with, flint Acmes for sthe’ cure o f it, pre-
fented hiffelf? to my attention, and *by>eleanlinels; ponMcesyarid healing
felve, I fucceeded in producing^ cure. One of thefepeople alfo, who was
at work in the woods, was attacked with aTnlden piin near the firft joint
df his thumbs wh ich difabied him from hoi ding an axe. On examining
his arm, I was aftonifhed to find) a narrow red ftripe, about half an inch
Urideil from his-thumb ta his fhoulder; the pain was violent, and accompanied
with chillinefs and fhivering.) This was .a’c'afe that'appeared to be
beyond my fkill, but it,was, necefiary to do fomething towards relieving
the mind of the patient, though I might be unfuccefsful in removing his
complaint. I accordingly prepared a kind of volatile liniment bf rum
and foap, with which I ordered bis arm to be rubbed' but with little or
no effeft. He was in a raving ftate throughout the night, and the red
ftripe not only enereafed, but wSs alfb accompanied * with the appearance
of feveral blotches on his body, and pains in his ftomach: the
propriety of taking fome blood feom him now occurred to me, and I ventured,
fromabfolute neeeffity,to perform that operation for the firft time,
-and with ah' effett that juftified the treatment. The-following night
afforded him reft, and in a fhbrt time he regained his former health and