Every Living Thing Seemed Joyful, And Nature's Work
Was Going On In Glowing Enthusiasm, Not Less Appreciable In The Deep
Repose That Brooded Over Every Feature Of The Landscape, Suggesting
The Coming Fruitfulness Of The Icy Land And Showing The Advance That
Has Already Been Made From Glacial Winter To Summer.
The care-laden
commercial lives we lead close our eyes to the operations of God as a
workman, though openly carried on that all who will look may see.
The
scarred rocks here and the moraines make a vivid showing of the old
winter-time of the glacial period, and mark the bounds of the
mer-de-glace that once filled the bay and covered the surrounding
mountains. Already that sea of ice is replaced by water, in which
multitudes of fishes are fed, while the hundred glaciers lingering
about the bay and the streams that pour from them are busy night and
day bringing in sand and mud and stones, at the rate of tons every
minute, to fill it up. Then, as the seasons grow warmer, there will
be fields here for the plough.
Our Indians, exhilarated by the sunshine, were garrulous as the gulls
and plovers, and pulled heartily at their oars, evidently glad to get
out of the ice with a whole boat.
"Now for Taku," they said, as we glided over the shining water.
"Good-bye, Ice-Mountains; good-bye, Sum Dum." Soon a light breeze
came, and they unfurled the sail and laid away their oars and began,
as usual in such free times, to put their goods in order, unpacking
and sunning provisions, guns, ropes, clothing, etc.
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