. The Arctic world: its plants, animals and natural phenomena [microform] : with a historical sketch of Arctic discovery down to the British Polar Expedition: 1875-76. British Polar Expedition, 1875-76; British Polar Expedition, 1875-76; Zoology; Zoologie. A 0U)K10UH LANDHCAI'K AND SEASCAPE. 'J^ 4- We adopt the followin;,' description from tlu; vivid languajjjc of Dr. Haves, who a keen feeling for the beauties of tlie Polar world. The air was warm, he says, ahnost a summer't* ni^lit at liome, and yet there \\i\v the icebergs and the bleak mountains, with which the fancy, in our o
. The Arctic world: its plants, animals and natural phenomena [microform] : with a historical sketch of Arctic discovery down to the British Polar Expedition: 1875-76. British Polar Expedition, 1875-76; British Polar Expedition, 1875-76; Zoology; Zoologie. A 0U)K10UH LANDHCAI'K AND SEASCAPE. 'J^ 4- We adopt the followin;,' description from tlu; vivid languajjjc of Dr. Haves, who a keen feeling for the beauties of tlie Polar world. The air was warm, he says, ahnost a summer't* ni^lit at liome, and yet there \\i\v the icebergs and the bleak mountains, with which the fancy, in our own la?K? of green hills and wav- ing 'voods, can associate nothing but what is cold and repellent. Bright was the sky, and suit and strangely inspiring as the skies of Italy. The bergs had wholly lost their chilly asjdct, and, glittering in the blaze of the brilliant heavens, seemed, in the distance, like niiusses of burniHlud metal or solid flame. Nearer at hand they were huge blocks of I'arian marble, encrusted with colossal gems of pearl and opal. One in particular exhibited the perfection of grandiiir. Its t, \. ;mnosillV» OFF THE COAST OF GREENLAND. form was not unlike that of the Coliseum, and it lay so far away that half its height was buried beneath the line of blood-red waters. The sun, slow moving along its path of glory, passed behind it, and the old Roman ruin seemed suddenly to break into flame ! Nothing, indeed, but the pencil of the artist could depict the wonderful richness of this com- bined landscape and seascape. Church, in his great jiicture of " The Icebergs," has grandly exhibited a scene not unlike that we have attempted to describe. In the shadows of " e bergs the water was a ricli green, and nothing could, be more soft and tender than the gradations of colour made by the sea shoaling on the sloping tongues of some of these floating masses. The tint increased in intensity where the ice overhung the wat^M-s, and a deep cavern in one
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