But an opinionated and an ingenious man is seldom at a loss to find a sufficient reason to establish his own correctness, or to prove the mistakes of others.
"Ay, I see how it is," he said, after a little cogitation, "the sun must be wrong--it should be no wonder if the sun did get a little out of his track in these high, cold latitudes.

Yes, yes; the sun must be wrong." I was too much delighted at being certain we were going on our course to dispute the point, and the great luminary was abandoned to the imputation of sometimes being in error.

Dr.Reasono took occasion to say, in my private ear, that there was a sect of philosophers in Leaphigh, who had long distrusted the accuracy of the planetary system, and who had even thrown out hints that the earth, In its annual revolution, moved in a direction absolutely contrary to that which nature had contemplated when she gave the original polar impulse; but that, as regarded himself, he thought very little of these opinions, as he had frequent occasion to observe that there was a large class of monikins whose ideas always went uphill.
For two more days and as many nights, we continued to drift with the floes to the southward, or as near as might be, towards the haven of our wishes.

On the fourth morning, there was a suitable change in the weather; both thermometer and barometer rose; the air became more bland, and most of our cats and dogs, notwithstanding we were still surrounded by the ice, began to cast their skins.

Dr.Reasono noted these signs, and stepping on the floe, he brought back with him a considerable fragment of the frozen element.