CAMP SCENIC. 



SPITSBERGEN 



CHAPTER I 



INTRODUCTORY 



IT was in Lord Dufferin's " Letters from High Latitudes " 

 that Spitsbergen x first emerged, for me, from the fogs and 

 darkness of Arctic mystery, as a land of mountains and glaciers, 

 of splintered peaks and icy bays, a place worth seeing and 

 even worth going to see. It is, as every one knows, the 

 portion of Arctic land which has been more frequently visited 

 than any other, for the simple reason that of all Arctic lands 

 it is the most accessible. The same Gulf Stream that renders 

 our own islands so temperate, so wholesome, and so damp, 



1 Not Spitzbergen. The name is Dutch. 



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