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SCENERY OF THE ARCTIC OCEAN.
quantities of ice may not be seen floating about in the arctic seas.
This fact it is that enables us to speak appropriately of the scenery of the Arctic Ocean. And assuredly this scenery of the ice is exceedingly and
THE POLAR SEA.
strikingly beautiful. The imagination cannot conceive the dazzling effect of a bright summer day in those regions, when the ocean is clear as glass, and ice-lumps and ice-mountains of every shape and size are glittering in the sun's rays with intense
