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    2. Off-The-Street on

      LETTER I

      *To Mrs. Saville, England*

      ST. PETERSBURGH, *Dec. 11**^(th)**, 17—.*

      YOU WILL REJOICE to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday; and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare, and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking.

      I am already far north of London; and as I walk in the streets of Petersburgh, I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves, and fills me with delight. Do you understand this feeling? This breeze, which has travelled from the regions towards which I am advancing, gives me a foretaste of those icy climes. Inspirited by this wind of promise, my day dreams become more fervent and vivid. I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation; it ever presents itself to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight. There, Margaret, the sun is forever visible, its broad disk just skirting the horizon, and diffusing a perpetual splendour. There—for with your leave, my sister, I will put some trust in preceding navigators—there snow and frost are banished; and, sailing over a calm sea, we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on the habitable globe. Its productions and features may be without example, as the phenomena of the heavenly bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes. What may not be expected in a country of eternal light? I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle; and may regulate a thousand celestial observations that require only this voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent for ever. I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man. These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death, and to induce me to commence this laborious voyage with the joy a child feels when he embarks in a little boat, with his holiday mates, on an expedition of discovery up his native river. But, supposing all these conjectures to be false, you cannot contest the inestimable benefit which I shall confer on all mankind, to the last generation, by discovering a passage near the pole to those countries, to reach which at present so many months are requisite; or by ascertaining the secret of the magnet, which, if at all possible, can only be effected by an undertaking such as mine.

    5. s4hockey4 on

      shit new dt, lemme ask: how we feeling about prop 37? It’s a demand side subsidy so I’m leaning no

    9. Abolish_Zoning on

      Politics must feel so fucking good if you don’t understand second-order effects.

    10. Magical_Username on

      The Americans starting up public executions is a fun headline to wake up to

      Fun world

    11. Hugo_Grotius on

      A Minnesota teenager planning a mass shooting of a mall is actually a great example of assimilation into our culture. I hope planned to use an AR-15 like any other self-respecting American psychopath.

    12. Bestbrook123 on

      >Far left protesters chant “Mamdani is complicit for ICE” at Mamdani during his presser

      This and yesterday is some of the most deranged “protesting” I’ve seen

    13. erasmus_phillo on

      “
       Vice President Vance announced a probe Thursday into multiple colleges over their use of the J-1 visa program that allows foreign students and researchers to come study or work in the U.S. 
      “Elite universities bring in foreigners to undercut the wages of American residents,” Vance said at a press conference regarding fraud and abuse in work visa programs. “There are nine universities in particular we believe merit an investigation.”
      The vice president specifically called out Harvard University, Yale University, Stanford University, Brown University, the University of Pittsburgh, Arizona State University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the California Institute of Technology and the University of California, Davis.”

      They really are just nuking American academia aren’t they? Jesus Christ

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