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 to relieve the eye and enable it more fully to appreciate the virgin drapery of the scene. All this, seen in detailseen frequently in rapid successionsometimes seen almost all at one moment,all this is absolutely beyond conception, and utterly beyond adequate description. Yet all this is seen at times in those realms of ice and snow, which are, as we have already said, too much represented as the "gloomy, forbidding, inhospitable polar regions."

There are two sides to every picture. We take leave of this particular branch of our subject with the remark, that if the shady side of the far north is dreadfully dark and dreary, its bright side is intensely brilliant and beautiful.