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I made, also, three important observations. The first was, that,= as a general rule, the larger the bodies were, the more rapid their descen= t - the second, that, between two masses of equal extent, the one spherical= , and the other _of any other shape_, the superiority in speed of descent w= as with the sphere - the third, that, between two masses of equal size, the= one cylindrical, and the other of any other shape, the cylinder was absorb= ed the more slowly. Since my escape, I have had several conversations on th= is subject with an old school-master of the district ; and it was from him = that I learned the use of the words ' cylinder' and ' sphere.' He explained= to me - although I have forgotten the explanation - how what I observed wa= s, in fact, the natural consequence of the forms of the floating fragments = - and showed me how it happened that a cylinder, swimming in a vortex, offe= red more resistance to its suction, and was drawn in with greater difficult= y than an equally bulky body, of any form whatever. {*1} " There was o= ne startling circumstance which went a great way in enforcing these observa= tions, and rendering me anxious to turn them to account, and this was that,= at every revolution, we passed something like a barrel, or else the yard o= r the mast of a vessel, while many of these things, which had been on our l= evel when I first opened my eyes upon the wonders of the whirlpool, were no= w high up above us, and seemed to have moved but little from their original= station. " I no longer hesitated what to do. I resolved to lash mysel= f securely to the water cask upon which I now held, to cut it loose from th= e counter, and to throw myself with it into the water. I attracted my broth= er' s attention by signs, pointed to the floating barrels that came near us= , and did everything in my power to make him understand what I was about to= do. I thought at length that he comprehended my design - but, whether this= was the case or not, he shook his head despairingly, and refused to move f= rom his station by the ring-bolt. It was impossible to reach him; the emerg= ency admitted of no delay ; and so, with a bitter struggle, I resigned him = to his fate, fastened myself to the cask by means of the lashings which sec= ured it to the counter, and precipitated myself with it into the sea, witho= ut another moment' s hesitation. " The result was precisely what I had= hoped it might be. As it is myself who now tell you this tale - as you see= that I _did_ escape - and as you are already in possession of the mode in = which this escape was effected, and must therefore anticipate all that I ha= ve farther to say - I will bring my story quickly to conclusion. It might h= ave been an hour, or thereabout, after my quitting the smack, when, having = descended to a vast distance beneath me, it made three or four wild gyratio= ns in rapid succession, and, bearing my loved brother with it, plunged head= long, at once and forever, into the chaos of foam below. The barrel to whic= h I was attached sunk very little farther than half the distance between th= e bottom of the gulf and the spot at which I leaped overboard, before a gre= at change took place in the character of the whirlpool. The slope of the si= des of the vast funnel became momently less and less steep. The gyrations o= f the whirl grew, gradually, less and less violent. By degrees, the froth a= nd the rainbow disappeared, and the bottom of the gulf seemed slowly to upr= ise. The sky was clear, the winds had gone down, and the full moon was sett= ing radiantly in the west, when I found myself on the surface of the ocean,= in full view of the shores of Lofoden, and above the spot where the pool o= f the Moskoe-strö m _had been_. It was the hour of the slack - but the= sea still heaved in mountainous waves from the effects of the hurricane. I= was borne violently into the channel of the Strö m, and in a few minu= tes was hurried down the coast into the ' grounds' of the fishermen. A boat= picked me up - exhausted from fatigue - and (now that the danger was remov= ed) speechless from the memory of its horror. Those who drew me on board we= re my old mates and daily companions - but they knew me no more than they w= ould have known a traveller from the spirit-land. My hair which had been ra= ven-black the day before, was as white as you see it now. They say too that= the whole expression of my countenance had changed. I told them my story -= they did not believe it. I now tell it to _you_ - and I can scarcely expec= t you to put more faith in it than did the merry fishermen of Lofoden."= ; ~~~ End of Text ~~~ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D VON KEMPELEN AND HIS DISCOVERY AFT= ER THE very minute and elaborate paper by Arago, to say nothing of the summ= ary in ' Silliman' s Journal,' with the detailed statement just published b= y Lieutenant Maury, it will not be supposed, of course, that in offering a = few hurried remarks in reference to Von Kempelen' s discovery, I have any d= esign to look at the subject in a scientific point of view. My object is si= mply, in the first place, to say a few words of Von Kempelen himself (with = whom, some years ago, I had the honor of a slight personal acquaintance), s= ince every thing which concerns him must necessarily, at this moment, be of= interest; and, in the second place, to look in a general way, and speculat= ively, at the results of the discovery. It may be as well, however, to prem= ise the cursory observations which I have to offer, by denying, very decide= dly, what seems to be a general impression (gleaned, as usual in a case of = this kind, from the newspapers), viz.: that this discovery, astounding as i= t unquestionably is, is unanticipated. By reference to the ' Diary of Sir H= umphrey Davy' (Cottle and Munroe, London, pp. 150), it will be seen at pp. = 53 and 82, that this illustrious chemist had not only conceived the idea no= w in question, but had actually made no inconsiderable progress, experiment= ally, in the very identical analysis now so triumphantly brought to an issu= e by Von Kempelen, who although he makes not the slightest allusion to it, = is, without doubt (I say it unhesitatingly, and can prove it, if required),= indebted to the ' Diary' for at least the first hint of his own undertakin= g. The paragraph from the ' Courier and Enquirer,' which is now going the r= ounds of the press, and which purports to claim the invention for a Mr. Kis= sam, of Brunswick, Maine, appears to me, I confess, a little apocryphal, fo= r several reasons; although there is nothing either impossible or very impr= obable in the statement made. I need not go into details. My opinion of the= paragraph is founded principally upon its manner. It does not look true. P= ersons who are narrating facts, are seldom so particular as Mr. Kissam seem= s to be, about day and date and precise location. Besides, if Mr. Kissam ac= tually did come upon the discovery he says he did, at the period designated= -- nearly eight years ago -- how happens it that he took no steps, on the = instant, to reap the immense benefits which the merest bumpkin must have kn= own would have resulted to him individually, if not to the world at large, = from the discovery? It seems to me quite incredible that any man of common = understanding could have discovered what Mr. Kissam says he did, and yet ha= ve subsequently acted so like a baby -- so like an owl -- as Mr. Kissam adm= its that he did. By-the-way, who is Mr. Kissam? and is not the whole paragr= aph in the ' Courier and Enquirer' a fabrication got up to ' make a talk' ?= It must be confessed that it has an amazingly moon-hoaxy-air. Very little = dependence is to be placed upon it, in my humble opinion; and if I were not= well aware, from experience, how very easily men of science are mystified,= on points out of their usual range of inquiry, I should be profoundly asto= nished at finding so eminent a chemist as Professor Draper, discussing Mr. = Kissam' s (or is it Mr. Quizzem' s?) pretensions to the discovery, in so se= rious a tone. But to return to the ' Diary' of Sir Humphrey Davy. This pamp= hlet was not designed for the public eye, even upon the decease of the writ= er, as any person at all conversant with authorship may satisfy himself at = once by the slightest inspection of the style. At page 13, for example, nea= r the middle, we read, in reference to his researches about the protoxide o= f azote: ' In less than half a minute the respiration being continued, dimi= nished gradually and were succeeded by analogous to gentle pressure on all = the muscles.' That the respiration was not ' diminished,' is not only clear= by the subsequent context, but by the use of the plural, ' were.' The sent= ence, no doubt, was thus intended: ' In less than half a minute, the respir= ation [being continued, these feelings] diminished gradually, and were succ= eeded by [a sensation] analogous to gentle pressure on all the muscles.' A = hundred similar instances go to show that the MS. so inconsiderately publis= hed, was merely a rough note-book, meant only for the writer' s own eye, bu= t an inspection of the pamphlet will convince almost any thinking person of= the truth of my suggestion. The fact is, Sir Humphrey Davy was about the l= ast man in the world to commit himself on scientific topics. Not only had h= e a more than ordinary dislike to quackery, but he was morbidly afraid of a= ppearing empirical; so that, however fully he might have been convinced tha= t he was on the right track in the matter now in question, he would never h= ave spoken out, until he had every thing ready for the most practical demon= stration. I verily believe that his last moments would have been rendered w= retched, could he have suspected that his wishes in regard to burning this = ' Diary' (full of crude speculations) would have been unattended to; as, it= seems, they were. I say ' his wishes,' for that he meant to include this n= ote-book among the miscellaneous papers directed ' to be burnt,' I think th= ere can be no manner of doubt. Whether it escaped the flames by good fortun= e or by bad, yet remains to be seen. That the passages quoted above, with t= he other similar ones referred to, gave Von Kempelen the hint, I do not in = the slightest degree question; but I repeat, it yet remains to be seen whet= her this momentous discovery itself (momentous under any circumstances) wil= l be of service or disservice to mankind at large. That Von Kempelen and hi= s immediate friends will reap a rich harvest, it would be folly to doubt fo= r a moment. They will scarcely be so weak as not to ' realize,' in time, by= large purchases of houses and land, with other property of intrinsic value= In the brief account of Von Kempelen which appeared in the ' Home Journal= ,' and has since been extensively copied, several misapprehensions of the G= erman original seem to have been made by the translator, who professes to h= ave taken the passage from a late number of the Presburg ' Schnellpost.' ' = Viele' has evidently been misconceived (as it often is), and what the trans= lator renders by ' sorrows,' is probably ' lieden,' which, in its true vers= ion, ' sufferings,' would give a totally different complexion to the whole = account; but, of course, much of this is merely guess, on my part. Von Kemp= elen, however, is by no means ' a misanthrope,' in appearance, at least, wh= atever he may be in fact. My acquaintance with him was casual altogether; a= nd I am scarcely warranted in saying that I know him at all; but to have se= en and conversed with a man of so prodigious a notoriety as he has attained= , or will attain in a few days, is not a small matter, as times go. ' The L= iterary World' speaks of him, confidently, as a native of Presburg (misled,= perhaps, by the account in ' The Home Journal' ) but I am pleased in being= able to state positively, since I have it from his own lips, that he was b= orn in Utica, in the State of New York, although both his parents, I believ= e, are of Presburg descent. The family is connected, in some way, with Mael= zel, of Automaton-chess-player memory. In person, he is short and stout, wi= th large, fat, blue eyes, sandy hair and whiskers, a wide but pleasing mout= h, fine teeth, and I think a Roman nose. There is some defect in one of his= feet. His address is frank, and his whole manner noticeable for bonhomie. = Altogether, he looks, speaks, and acts as little like ' a misanthrope' as a= ny man I ever saw. We were fellow-sojouners for a week about six years ago,= at Earl' s Hotel, in Providence, Rhode Island; and I presume that I conver= sed with him, at various times, for some three or four hours altogether. Hi= s principal topics were those of the day, and nothing that fell from him le= d me to suspect his scientific attainments. He left the hotel before me, in= tending to go to New York, and thence to Bremen; it was in the latter city = that his great discovery was first made public; or, rather, it was there th= at he was first suspected of having made it. This is about all that I perso= nally know of the now immortal Von Kempelen; but I have thought that even t= hese few details would have interest for the public. There can be little qu= estion that most of the marvellous rumors afloat about this affair are pure= inventions, entitled to about as much credit as the story of Aladdin' s la= mp; and yet, in a case of this kind, as in the case of the discoveries in C= alifornia, it is clear that the truth may be stranger than fiction. The fol= lowing anecdote, at least, is so well authenticated, that we may receive it= implicitly. Von Kempelen had never been even tolerably well off during his= residence at Bremen; and often, it was well known, he had been put to extr= eme shifts in order to raise trifling sums. When the great excitement occur= red about the forgery on the house of Gutsmuth & Co., suspicion was dir= ected toward Von Kempelen, on account of his having purchased a considerabl= e property in Gasperitch Lane, and his refusing, when questioned, to explai= n how he became possessed of the purchase money. He was at length arrested,= but nothing decisive appearing against him, was in the end set at liberty.= The police, however, kept a strict watch upon his movements, and thus disc= overed that he left home frequently, taking always the same road, and invar= iably giving his watchers the slip in the neighborhood of that labyrinth of= narrow and crooked passages known by the flash name of the ' Dondergat.' F= inally, by dint of great perseverance, they traced him to a garret in an ol= d house of seven stories, in an alley called Flatzplatz, -- and, coming upo= n him suddenly, found him, as they imagined, in the midst of his counterfei= ting operations. His agitation is represented as so excessive that the offi= cers had not the slightest doubt of his guilt. After hand-cuffing him, they= searched his room, or rather rooms, for it appears he occupied all the man= sarde. Opening into the garret where they caught him, was a closet, ten fee= t by eight, fitted up with some chemical apparatus, of which the object has= not yet been ascertained. In one corner of the closet was a very small fur= nace, with a glowing fire in it, and on the fire a kind of duplicate crucib= le -- two crucibles connected by a tube. One of these crucibles was nearly = full of lead in a state of fusion, but not reaching up to the aperture of t= he tube, which was close to the brim. The other crucible had some liquid in= it, which, as the officers entered, seemed to be furiously dissipating in = vapor. They relate that, on finding himself taken, Kempelen seized the cruc= ibles with both hands (which were encased in gloves that afterwards turned = out to be asbestic), and threw the contents on the tiled floor. It was now = that they hand-cuffed him; and before proceeding to ransack the premises th= ey searched his person, but nothing unusual was found about him, excepting = a paper parcel, in his coat-pocket, containing what was afterward ascertain= ed to be a mixture of antimony and some unknown substance, in nearly, but n= ot quite, equal proportions. All attempts at analyzing the unknown substanc= e have, so far, failed, but that it will ultimately be analyzed, is not to = be doubted. Passing out of the closet with their prisoner, the officers wen= t through a sort of ante-chamber, in which nothing material was found, to t= he chemist' s sleeping-room. They here rummaged some drawers and boxes, but= discovered only a few papers, of no importance, and some good coin, silver= and gold. At length, looking under the bed, they saw a large, common hair = trunk, without hinges, hasp, or lock, and with the top lying carelessly acr= oss the bottom portion. Upon attempting to draw this trunk out from under t= he bed, they found that, with their united strength (there were three of th= em, all powerful men), they ' could not stir it one inch.' Much astonished = at this, one of them crawled under the bed, and looking into the trunk, sai= d: ' No wonder we couldn' t move it -- why it' s full to the brim of old bi= ts of brass!' Putting his feet, now, against the wall so as to get a good p= urchase, and pushing with all his force, while his companions pulled with a= n theirs, the trunk, with much difficulty, was slid out from under the bed,= and its contents examined. The supposed brass with which it was filled was= all in small, smooth pieces, varying from the size of a pea to that of a d= ollar; but the pieces were irregular in shape, although more or less flat-l= ooking, upon the whole, ' very much as lead looks when thrown upon the grou= nd in a molten state, and there suffered to grow cool.' Now, not one of the= se officers for a moment suspected this metal to be any thing but brass. Th= e idea of its being gold never entered their brains, of course; how could s= uch a wild fancy have entered it? And their astonishment may be well concei= ved, when the next day it became known, all over Bremen, that the ' lot of = brass' which they had carted so contemptuously to the police office, withou= t putting themselves to the trouble of pocketing the smallest scrap, was no= t only gold -- real gold -- but gold far finer than any employed in coinage= -gold, in fact, absolutely pure, virgin, without the slightest appreciable = alloy. I need not go over the details of Von Kempelen' s confession (as far= as it went) and release, for these are familiar to the public. That he has= actually realized, in spirit and in effect, if not to the letter, the old = chimaera of the philosopher' s stone, no sane person is at liberty to doubt= The opinions of Arago are, of course, entitled to the greatest considerat= ion; but he is by no means infallible; and what he says of bismuth, in his = report to the Academy, must be taken cum grano salis. The simple truth is, = that up to this period all analysis has failed; and until Von Kempelen choo= ses to let us have the key to his own published enigma, it is more than pro= bable that the matter will remain, for years, in statu quo. All that as yet= can fairly be said to be known is, that ' Pure gold can be made at will, a= nd very readily from lead in connection with certain other substances, in k= ind and in proportions, unknown.' Speculation, of course, is busy as to the= immediate and ultimate results of this discovery -- a discovery which few = thinking persons will hesitate in referring to an increased interest in the= matter of gold generally, by the late developments in California; and this= reflection brings us inevitably to another -- the exceeding inopportunenes= s of Von Kempelen' s analysis. If many were prevented from adventuring to C= alifornia, by the mere apprehension that gold would so materially diminish = in value, on account of its plentifulness in the mines there, as to render = the speculation of going so far in search of it a doubtful one -- what impr= ession will be wrought now, upon the minds of those about to emigrate, and = especially upon the minds of those actually in the mineral region, by the a= nnouncement of this astounding discovery of Von Kempelen? a discovery which= declares, in so many words, that beyond its intrinsic worth for manufactur= ing purposes (whatever that worth may be), gold now is, or at least soon wi= ll be (for it cannot be supposed that Von Kempelen can long retain his secr= et), of no greater value than lead, and of far inferior value to silver. It= is, indeed, exceedingly difficult to speculate prospectively upon the cons= equences of the discovery, but one thing may be positively maintained -- th= at the announcement of the discovery six months ago would have had material= influence in regard to the settlement of California. In Europe, as yet, th= e most noticeable results have been a rise of two hundred per cent. in the = price of lead, and nearly twenty-five per cent. that of silver. ~~~ End of = Text ~~~ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D MESMERIC REVELATION WHATEVER doubt may still en= velop the _rationale_ of mesmerism, its startling _facts_ are now almost un= iversally admitted. Of these latter, those who doubt, are your mere doubter= s by profession - an unprofitable and disreputable tribe. 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