SNOW-FLOWERS AND ICE-CBYSTALS. Ill 



cooled the moisture precipitated from the interior 

 of the room upon the glass. How exquisitely 

 beautiful are the shapes which the crystallized 

 icicles have assumed ! Disposed are they not 

 merely with kaleidoscopic symmetry, but with such 

 definite and general order as to produce an 

 appearance as of ferns or flowers. Nay, more, it 

 is not imagination merely, but actual vision 

 which shows these forms arrayed as trees and 

 even as woods. There is to be found the trunk, 

 the boughs, and the ramification of a tree, and 

 the disposition of trees in the form of woods. 

 Thus, therefore, microscopically, are represented 

 much of the glory and the beauty of sylvan 

 Winter. 



