THE SLIDES. 
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ward like a cataract of ruins. The dogs were terrified 
by the clamor, and could hardly be driven on till it 
intermitted. 
Just beyond Six-mile Ravine my sledge barely es- 
•THE SLIDE. 
caped destruction from one ot these land-slides. Hap¬ 
pily Metek was behind, and warned me of the dangei 
just in time to cut loose the traces and drag away the 
sledge. 
But it is not in the season of thaws only that these 
