Alaskaland a Curious Contradiction

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Witching beauty changed to terrible magnificence where the shore-line reared itself skyward, and monster glaciers twined around the base of colos- sal pillars upon which the star-studded firmament appeared to rest. Stately icebergs floated by in the dim haze of dawn, mocking the pilot's eyes and menacing the lives of the passengers. Great fog-clouds floated overhead, obscuring heaven's dome, and spectral derelicts swarmed around the ship. Then out into the open sea she sailed, where stretched f...or hundreds of miles the awful white sea wall, defiant, soul-stunning and unap- proachable; and beyond it rose the mighty peaks of everlasting crystal, mist-veiled from human view when the leaden-gray of the turbulent gulf becomes a part of the colorless southern horizon, and sea and sky blend together. . The Bertha's load grew lighter and her pas- 48 THE PASSING OF THE BERTHA senger list scantier at each stop ; her welcome was warmer, but the greeting crowds thinned out, until at last, on the madcap tides of the great Inlet, she discharged her cargo in mid-stream to the few tugs and lighters from the inhospitable and, to her, inaccessible shores.

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