. Picturesque Alaska : a journal of a tour among the mountains, seas and islands of the Northwest, from San Francisco to Sitka. ngland, with anextra shawl, will be quite sufficient to meetall exposures of the climate, and enable oneto spend most of the time upon deck ifdesirable. In the preceding account of our tour inAlaska, I have inclined my ears to natureand simply told the tale as it was toldto me. Some who will go there may re-turn with the impression that I have some-what exaggerated in my descriptions ofwhat we saw. Many will no doubt declarethat the half has not been told to them ;whi
. Picturesque Alaska : a journal of a tour among the mountains, seas and islands of the Northwest, from San Francisco to Sitka. ngland, with anextra shawl, will be quite sufficient to meetall exposures of the climate, and enable oneto spend most of the time upon deck ifdesirable. In the preceding account of our tour inAlaska, I have inclined my ears to natureand simply told the tale as it was toldto me. Some who will go there may re-turn with the impression that I have some-what exaggerated in my descriptions ofwhat we saw. Many will no doubt declarethat the half has not been told to them ;while an exceptional few will bring homewith them little but the memory of thefinal score at euchre and the passing de-light of the last flirtation, having seen orheard naught of the wonderful revelations 212 PICTURESQUE ALASKA. of Nature. I can only refer these last tothe response of the artist Turner. Whena lady to whom he was exhibiting one ofhis rarely beautiful delineations of the set-ting sun, remarked to him, I never sawa sunset look like that, he replied witha characteristic expletive: Dont youwish you could, madam ?.
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