I am already far north of , and as I walk in the of Petersburgh, I feel a cold breeze play upon my cheeks, which my nerves and fills me with . Do you understand this feeling? This , which has travelled from the regions which I am advancing, gives me foretaste of those icy climes. Inspirited this wind of promise, my daydreams more fervent and vivid. I try vain to be persuaded that the is the seat of frost and ; it ever presents itself to my as the region of beauty and . There, Margaret, the sun is visible, its broad disk just skirting horizon and diffusing a perpetual splendour. - for with your leave, my , I will put some trust in navigators - there snow and frost banished; and, sailing over a calm , we may be wafted to a surpassing in wonders and in beauty region hitherto discovered on the habitable . Its productions and features may be example, as the phenomena of the bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered .