Alaska, its waters, land and life; an illustrated lecture . fif ^:^t^. Flowers Growing on the Ice at Cape Lisburiie. are more, and more bejondthem, so that you mightfancj^ you were upon anenormous plain broken bycraggy rocks. But, some-times even here there arehours of warmth and gen-iality. In those periodsthe blue ocean, floating itsVictoria Regias of chalkyice, shall seem sensuous and .serene beneath the high warm sun, when even the brokenbarrier of the Siberian rock coast shall have a softened feeling in its undulating lines, andwhen palar nature is relaxed and mild. It is in this brief se
Alaska, its waters, land and life; an illustrated lecture . fif ^:^t^. Flowers Growing on the Ice at Cape Lisburiie. are more, and more bejondthem, so that you mightfancj^ you were upon anenormous plain broken bycraggy rocks. But, some-times even here there arehours of warmth and gen-iality. In those periodsthe blue ocean, floating itsVictoria Regias of chalkyice, shall seem sensuous and .serene beneath the high warm sun, when even the brokenbarrier of the Siberian rock coast shall have a softened feeling in its undulating lines, andwhen palar nature is relaxed and mild. It is in this brief season, that not only the flowers blossom, as I have said, but edil)levegetation may be cultivated. In a region where wild strawberries the earth withtheir succulent fruit, where the big salmon berry is so abundant that it is an importantdiet of bears, where you may walk through miles of large, luscious huckleberries, pendantfrom their stout, tough bushes, that such a country, yielding in abundance the spontaneoussweets of nature, should yet be incapable of resp
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