A NOR' WESTER, I51 



piled together over the eastern horizon by the 

 young giant that has come out of the north 

 scattering them with the breath of his nostrils. 

 Every moment, his fury increases. After the 

 southeaster has succumbed, its waves for a 

 time keep up the uneven contest until the 

 nor'vvester brings into action the waves that 

 he has created, and which increase under his 

 lash. These strike the old seas and topple 

 them up on end, sending the spray of the com- 

 bat high in the air, little rainbows playing 

 through their crests. At last the old leaden 

 colored seas subside and the blue waters roll on 

 in their beauty and majesty. The ship that 

 had been tossed about in the conflict, opposing 

 surges meeting and tumbling in upon her 

 decks, is now snugly hove to, riding the billows 

 like an albatross, and sailors, disappointed as 

 they may be at the loss of their fair wind, are 

 never so insensible that they cannot enjoy the 

 magnificence of this great picture of sky and 

 sea. 



There is nothing comparable to it on the 

 land. There are the same clouds, storms, and 

 sunshine, the same poetry of motion overhead, 

 but no motion of the stolid mountains that 

 stand still in their everlasting ranges, fixed 



