. After icebergs with a painter: . .1—1 woqwo THE KIP VAN WINKLE BERG. 215 sides is dapj)led with olive-green and yellowish tracts ofmoss and shrubbery. The annual expenditure of nature,on those poor mountains, for clothing and decoration isvery small. She furnishes holiday suits of cheap andflimsy cloud, and the showy jewelry of the passing show-ers, but refuses any bounteous outlay for the rich andsumptuous apparel of green fields and forests. Beneaththose sunny but desolate heights, there slumbers, in thepurple, calm waters, an iceberg with a form and expressionthat harmonize with the lands
. After icebergs with a painter: . .1—1 woqwo THE KIP VAN WINKLE BERG. 215 sides is dapj)led with olive-green and yellowish tracts ofmoss and shrubbery. The annual expenditure of nature,on those poor mountains, for clothing and decoration isvery small. She furnishes holiday suits of cheap andflimsy cloud, and the showy jewelry of the passing show-ers, but refuses any bounteous outlay for the rich andsumptuous apparel of green fields and forests. Beneaththose sunny but desolate heights, there slumbers, in thepurple, calm waters, an iceberg with a form and expressionthat harmonize with the landscape. I would call it theRip Van Winkle iceberg. It seems to have been lyingdown, but now to be half up, reposing upon its head, recently pillowed on the drowsy swells, wears ashapeless, peaked hat, from the tip of which is droppingsilvery rain through the warm, dreamy air. Between thecalm and the currents, our oarsmen are having a warmtime of it, I lay hold and labor until my hands smart,and I feel that hot weather ha
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