Alaska, its waters, land and life; an illustrated lecture . t, in the early spring before the ice cakes are melted, the most delicateflowers can in abundance be found. Saxifrage, dandelion, violets, grow amongst the vividorange and reds of the lichens and the moss, while the white blossoms of the stuntedwillows are greedily devoured by the coveys of grouse which feed upon them. The flowers give a smiling contrast to the cheeiless face of that broad and boundless landscape, destitute of beauty savethese tender touches of color. Butdifferent is it with the Arctic its cold immensity a pale
Alaska, its waters, land and life; an illustrated lecture . t, in the early spring before the ice cakes are melted, the most delicateflowers can in abundance be found. Saxifrage, dandelion, violets, grow amongst the vividorange and reds of the lichens and the moss, while the white blossoms of the stuntedwillows are greedily devoured by the coveys of grouse which feed upon them. The flowers give a smiling contrast to the cheeiless face of that broad and boundless landscape, destitute of beauty savethese tender touches of color. Butdifferent is it with the Arctic its cold immensity a pale glorydiffuses the aspect. We see aninfinite distance of snow^y surface,which you know to be ice, restingupon the water a score of feet thick ;an endless field of ice, solid as thefloor of earth. And close beside jouthere are ice eminences jagged intopointed peaks and sharp angles, asdifferent from the glacier ice asthough the materials were stand there, these rigid things,product of some past years jam, andoff yonder upon the wide sheet there. i6 ALASKA, ITS WATERS, LAND AND LIFE.
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