The morse emerging rears the face of man.
The Morse, or Walrus, supposed to be the original of the Merman; from the likeness its face presents at a little distance to that of a human being.
Floats the vast ice-field with its glassy blink.
The ice-blink seen on the horizon.
While the dire pest-scourge of the frozen zone.
Though the fearful disease known by the name of the scurvy is not peculiar to the northern latitudes; and Dr. Budd has ably disproved (in the Library of Practical Medicine) the old theory that it originated in cold and moisture; yet the disease was known in the north of Europe from the remotest ages, while no mention is made of its appearance in more genial climates before the year 1260.
And round and round the bark the narwal sweeps.