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•• And this iceberg has more significance than the great 

 Hood which the glacier's southern sister, the broad Amazon, 

 pours into the ocean from the slopes of the Andes and 

 the mountains of Brazil. Solemn, stately, and erect, in 

 tempest and in calm, it rides the deep. The restless 

 waves resound through its broken archways and thunder 

 against its adamantean walls. Clouds, impenetrable as 

 those which shielded the graceful form of Arethusa, clothe 

 it in the morning ; under the bright blaze of the noonday 

 sun it is armoured in glittering silver ; it robes itself in 

 the gorgeous colours of evening ; and in the silent night 

 the heavenly orbs are mirrored in its glassy surface. 

 Drifting snows whirl over it in the winter, and the sea- 

 gulls swarm round it in the summer. The last rays of 

 departing day linger upon its lofty spires ; and when the 

 long darkness is past it catches the first gleam of the 

 returning light, and its gilded dome heralds the coming 

 morn. The elements combine to render tribute to its 

 matchless beauty. Its loud voice is wafted to the shore, 

 and the earth rolls it from crag to crag among the 

 echoing hills. The sun steals through the veil of radiant 

 fountains which flutter over it in the summer winds, and 

 the rainbow on its pallid cheek betrays the warm kiss. 

 The air crowns it with wreaths of soft vapour, and the 

 waters around it take the hues of the emerald and the 

 sapphire. In fulfilment of its destiny it moves steadily 

 onward in its blue pathway through the varying seasons 

 and under the changeful skies. Slowly, as in ages long 

 gone by it arose from the broad waters, so does it sink 

 back into them. It is indeed a noble symbol of the Law r , 

 — a monument of Time's slow changes, more ancient than 

 the Egyptian Pyramids or the obelisk of Heliopolis. Its 

 crystals were dewdrops and snowflakes long before the 

 human race was born in Eden."" 



By the 28th October, 74 reindeer, 21 foxes, 12 hares, 



