SPEECH OE COL. SHAFENER AT BOSTON. 9 its altars I have received much light, and I have the highest appre- ciation of its benign teachings. I have passed through all the grades of the institution, and I have never seen the least thing that could be construed as objectionable to any one who had a heart capable of appreciating the works of the Supreme Being, the Grand Master who reigns supreme over that Lodge where we will surely meet, if we conduct ourselves according to the mysterious lessons presented to us in the various departments of the Fraternity. Symbolically, in Free Masonry, the north has ever been regarded as a place of darkness. In all branches of science, the north remains a place of darkness, comparatively, even to the present day. I go on a mission to that place of darkness, to those far distant regions, “in search of more light ” pertaining to physical geography. In whatever I may do upon this expedition, or in subsequent efforts for the accomplishment of the enterprise, you may depend upon my exercising the very best of faith towards the public. My course will be within the marks prescribed by the symbolic implements, the square and compass, which so beautifully de- corate the blue field of the flag you have done me the honour to present. This flag will unfurl, in the winds of the north, with the same majesty that it does in other regions where the breath of the Creator manifests benignity. This enterprise received its first encouragement from His Majesty Frederick VII., King of Denmark, and Grand Master of Free Masons. Greenland, Iceland, and the Faroe Isles are *his territories. He, as well as myself, is pledged in favour of the North Atlantic Telegraph, and, as true Masons, you may expect the object to be consummated in the best of faith. This expedition has in view the examination of the seas, the bays, and the lands, contemplated to be traversed by the North Atlantic Telegraph, connecting Europe with America via Greenland, Iceland, and the Faroe Isles. The project for an Atlantic Telegraph, as a speculative idea, may have originated with many, though but few have been active in the accomplishment of the great desideratum. Various schemes have been proposed, and the world has witnessed the birth and death, in infancy, of one of them—the late Atlantic Telegraph. The North Atlantic Telegraph has not been pressed in formidable array before the world, but I have never ceased to go on with it quietly, expecting the certain and signal failure of the late oceanic enterprise, by which the practicability of the former and the impracticability of the latter would be demonstrated to the satisfaction of disinterested and impartial men. In 1853, I commenced the advocacy of an ocean telegraph in my monthly telegraph publication, established by me, and at my own

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