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BOAT IN A STOEM. 



sides of some crumbling as if from age and the work of winter's 

 freezing power. One precipitous mountain, about half way up 

 the bay, had the whole side of it torn from summit to base, and 

 cast down. 



As we approached this mountain my eye caught sight of a cave. 

 I landed to examine it, and the moment I set foot on shore I was 

 struck with amazement at the huge rocks, high up and overhang- 

 ing my head, seemingly ready to totter and fall. The cave was 

 one of those made by the action of ice in winter and the sea and 

 sun in summer. The ice had rent the rocks and fastened upon 

 them ; the sun, with its heat, and the wind, with its power, then 

 went to work, tearing up the frozen masses of ice, and forcing out 

 the rocks, thus leaving the mountain partly disemboweled, as I 



