. The Rockies of Canada; . dry atmosphere, especially at this season, haslittle power to dissolve the white light into rainbowhues and produce those deep and richly varied colourswhich occur in lowland regions or on the sea. Thetints are pure, clear, and cold like the air itself. Theyare merely delicate shades or colour suggestionswhich recall those faint but exquisite hues seen intopaz, transparent quartz, or tourmaline crystals, inwhich the minutest trace of some foreign mineral hascreated rare spectrum colours and imprisoned themthere for ever. This morning the snowy mountaintops were
. The Rockies of Canada; . dry atmosphere, especially at this season, haslittle power to dissolve the white light into rainbowhues and produce those deep and richly varied colourswhich occur in lowland regions or on the sea. Thetints are pure, clear, and cold like the air itself. Theyare merely delicate shades or colour suggestionswhich recall those faint but exquisite hues seen intopaz, transparent quartz, or tourmaline crystals, inwhich the minutest trace of some foreign mineral hascreated rare spectrum colours and imprisoned themthere for ever. This morning the snowy mountaintops were tinted a clear pink beautifully contrastedagainst an intensely blue sky. My breath rose straight upwards in the calm mirror surface of the lake was disturbed by somewild fowl — black ducks and northern divers — whichfrequent the lake at this season. Their splashingsand the harsh cries of the divers came faintly overthe water. It seemed strange that these familiarhaunts could become so fearfully wild and lonely. 28 d a band of I the bare part the is andaring a. restec ted by rly morningmring at sunrise itmosphen has ower to dissolve thiid produce those deei a id r. J tints are pure, clear, and cold like the air itself. Theymerely delicate shades or colour suggestionsh recall those faint but isite hues seen in hai transparent quartz, the minutest 1 tintec • e lake overfamiliar lonely
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