LIFE AMONG THE SNOWS. 



THE LINE OF PERPETUAL SNOW. 



THE INHABITANTS OF THE ETERNAL SNOWS. 



If men have the faculty of living under all climates, they 

 make use of that faculty, as we know, with extreme reserve. 

 They have never permanently inhabited the polar regions and 

 the perpetually snowy summits of the mountains : it is only 

 at intervals that a few pioneers have temporarily ventured 

 thither. Starting from this fact, it was long believed that the 



