. Narrative of the Arctic land expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish River and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean in the years 1833, 1834, and 1835 [microform]. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. 140 JOURNEY TO THK SHORES ff I. motive might have been, he had chosen that steep and weary track. It was a sight altogether novel to me; I had seen nothing in the Old World at all resembling it. There was not the stern beauty of Alpine scenery, and still less the fair variety of hill and dale, forest and glade, which makes the charm of an European landscape. There was nothing to
. Narrative of the Arctic land expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish River and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean in the years 1833, 1834, and 1835 [microform]. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. 140 JOURNEY TO THK SHORES ff I. motive might have been, he had chosen that steep and weary track. It was a sight altogether novel to me; I had seen nothing in the Old World at all resembling it. There was not the stern beauty of Alpine scenery, and still less the fair variety of hill and dale, forest and glade, which makes the charm of an European landscape. There was nothing to catch or detain the lingering eye, which wandered on, with- o'lt a check, over endless lines of round backed rocks, whose sides were rent into indescribably eccentric forms. It was like a stormy ocean suddenly petrified. Except a few tawny and pale green lichens, there was nothing to relieve the hor- ror of the scene; for the fire had scathed it, and the gray and black stems of the mountain pine, which lay prostrate in mournful confusion, seemed like the blackened corpses of de- parted vegetation. It was a picture of "hideous ruin and ; Our encampment was broken up, and we were on our way very early on the morning of the 7th of September, but every one was too busily engaged in picking his way to speak; not a word was audible until about eight o'clock, when a fine buck deer, betrayed by its branching antlers, â was espied feeding behind a point thirty paces from us. It was brought down; and the haunch, covered with a rich layer of fat two inches thick, afforded a luxurious breakfast. Having put the remainder en cache, we proceeded on our way, and when we had gained the top of a hill, Slave Lake was seen right before us, hemmed in by mountains of con- siderable magnitude and height. A craggy range to the right determined the course of the Ah-hel-dessy; and many a steep rock and deep valley between the lake and us, announced the fatigue which was to be en
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