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SCENERY OF THE ARCTIC OCEAN. 



quantities of ice may not be seen floating about in 

 the arctic seas. 



This fact it is that enables us to speak appro- 

 priately of the scenery of the Arctic Ocean. And 

 assuredly this scenery of the ice is exceedingly and 



THE POLAR SEA. 



strikingly beautiful. The imagination cannot con- 

 ceive the dazzling effect of a bright summer day in 

 those regions, when the ocean is clear as glass, and 

 ice-lumps and ice-mountains of every shape and 

 size are <4itterin^ in the sun's rays with intense 



