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Curiosities Respecting Ice (Greenland or Polar Ice-On) (II)

On the Greenland, or Polar Ice-On the Tremendous Concussion of Fields of Ice-Icebergs-Magnitude of Icebergs-The Glaciers-Shower of Ice-Remarkable Frosts.

There winter, arm'd with terrors here unknown, Sits absolute on his unshaken throne; Piles up his stores amid the frozen waste, And bids the mountains he has built, stand fast; Beckons the legions of his storms away From happier scenes, to make this land a prey; Proclaims the soil a conquest he has won, And scorns to share it with the distant sun.

Another poet thus describes the polar regions :- Vast regions, dreary, bleak, and bare!

There on an icy mountain's height, Seen only by the moon's pale light, Stern winter rears his giant form, His robe a mist, his voice a storm:

His frown the shiv'ring nations fly, And, hid for half the year, in smoky caverns lie.