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At
the
same
time
as
the
coal
,
the
store
of
wood
was
renewed
at
Granite
House
,
and
they
profited
by
the
current
of
the
Mercy
having
again
become
free
,
to
float
down
several
rafts
.
They
could
see
that
the
cold
period
was
not
ended
.
A
visit
was
also
paid
to
the
Chimneys
,
and
the
settlers
could
not
but
congratulate
themselves
on
not
having
been
living
there
during
the
hurricane
.
The
sea
had
left
unquestionable
traces
of
its
ravages
.
Sweeping
over
the
islet
,
it
had
furiously
assailed
the
passages
,
half
filling
them
with
sand
,
while
thick
beds
of
seaweed
covered
the
rocks
.
While
Neb
,
Herbert
,
and
Pencroft
hunted
or
collected
wood
,
Cyrus
Harding
and
Gideon
Spilett
busied
themselves
in
putting
the
Chimneys
to
rights
,
and
they
found
the
forge
and
the
bellows
almost
unhurt
,
protected
as
they
had
been
from
the
first
by
the
heaps
of
sand
.
The
store
of
fuel
had
not
been
made
uselessly
.
The
settlers
had
not
done
with
the
rigorous
cold
.
It
is
known
that
,
in
the
Northern
Hemisphere
,
the
month
of
February
is
principally
distinguished
by
rapid
fallings
of
the
temperature
.
It
is
the
same
in
the
Southern
Hemisphere
,
and
the
end
of
the
month
of
August
,
which
is
the
February
of
North
America
,
does
not
escape
this
climatic
law
.
About
the
25th
,
after
another
change
from
snow
to
rain
,
the
wind
shifted
to
the
southeast
,
and
the
cold
became
,
suddenly
,
very
severe
.
According
to
the
engineer
's
calculation
,
the
mercurial
column
of
a
Fahrenheit
thermometer
would
not
have
marked
less
than
eight
degrees
below
zero
,
and
this
intense
cold
,
rendered
still
more
painful
by
a
sharp
gale
,
lasted
for
several
days
.
The
colonists
were
again
shut
up
in
Granite
House
,
and
as
it
was
necessary
to
hermetically
seal
all
the
openings
of
the
facade
,
only
leaving
a
narrow
passage
for
renewing
the
air
,
the
consumption
of
candles
was
considerable
.
To
economize
them
,
the
cavern
was
often
only
lighted
by
the
blazing
hearths
,
on
which
fuel
was
not
spared
.
Several
times
,
one
or
other
of
the
settlers
descended
to
the
beach
in
the
midst
of
ice
which
the
waves
heaped
up
at
each
tide
,
but
they
soon
climbed
up
again
to
Granite
House
,
and
it
was
not
without
pain
and
difficulty
that
their
hands
could
hold
to
the
rounds
of
the
ladder
.
In
consequence
of
the
intense
cold
,
their
fingers
felt
as
if
burned
when
they
touched
the
rounds
.
To
occupy
the
leisure
hours
,
which
the
tenants
of
Granite
House
now
had
at
their
disposal
,
Cyrus
Harding
undertook
an
operation
which
could
be
performed
indoors
.
We
know
that
the
settlers
had
no
other
sugar
at
their
disposal
than
the
liquid
substance
which
they
drew
from
the
maple
,
by
making
deep
incisions
in
the
tree
.
They
contented
themselves
with
collecting
this
liquor
in
jars
and
employing
it
in
this
state
for
different
culinary
purposes
,
and
the
more
so
,
as
on
growing
old
,
this
liquid
began
to
become
white
and
to
be
of
a
syrupy
consistence
.
But
there
was
something
better
to
be
made
of
it
,
and
one
day
Cyrus
Harding
announced
that
they
were
going
to
turn
into
refiners
.
"
Refiners
!
"
replied
Pencroft
.
"
That
is
rather
a
warm
trade
,
I
think
.
"
"
Very
warm
,
"
answered
the
engineer
.
"
Then
it
will
be
seasonable
!
"
said
the
sailor
.
