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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 detail seen frequently in rapid succes- 

 sion sometimes 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. 



