like a double dome from the sea, and the tall mountains of Arnõe, both of which islands resembled immense masses of transparent purple glass, gradually melting into crimson fire at their bases. The glassy, leaden-colored sea was powdered with a golden bloom, and the tremendous precipices at the mouth of the Lyngen Fjord, behind us, were steeped in a dark-red, mellow flush, and touched with pencillings of pure, rose-colored light, until their naked ribs seemed to be clothed in imperial velvet. As we turned into the Fjord and ran southward along their bases, a waterfall, struck by the sun, fell in fiery orange foam down the red walls, and the blue ice-pillars of a beautiful glacier filled up the ravine beyond it. We were all on deck; and all faces, excited by the divine splendor of the scene and tinged by the same wonderful aureole, shone as if transfigured. In my whole life I have never seen a spectacle so unearthly beautiful. Our course brought the sun rapidly toward the ruby cliffs of Arnöe, and it was evident that he would soon be hidden from sight. It was not yet half-past eleven, and an enthusiastic passenger begged the captain to stop the vessel until midnight. "Why," said the latter, "it is midnight now, or very near it: you have Drontheim time, which is almost forty minutes in arrears." True enough, the real time lacked but five minutes of midnight, and those of us who had sharp eyes and strong imaginations saw the sun make his last dip and rise a little, before he vanished in a blaze of glory behind Arnöe. I turned away with my eyes full of dazzling spheres of crimson and gold, which danced before me wherever I looked; and it was a long time before they were blotted out by the semi-oblivion of a daylight sleep. Northern Travel. INDEX TO SUBJECTS, AND TO NAMES INCIDENTALLY MENTIONED IN THE VOLUME. 47 57 [FOR THE AUTHORS IN THE WORK, SEE ALPHABETICAL LIST, ON THE TWENTY-SECOND PAGE.] Abbot, Dr. Benjamin, the instructor of PAGE Webster... 258 Buckminster.......... 283 Algiers, White Slavery in...................... 117 | Ariel, Wreck of, by Cooper... Allen, Paul, editor of Portfolio............... 157 319 333 Arsenal at Springfield...... 564 Art and Scenery in Europe...... 702 Arthur Clenning, a novel, by Flint... 237 .......275, 771 Arthur Mervyn,-Brown's... 177 Bakewell's Geology, Silliman's ed........ 234 Bracebridge Hall... 275 Bald Eagle, Wilson's description of.......... 146 Brain, the, by Holmes.. 628 Baldwin, T., his Gazetteer... Baltimore Convention in 1852.. 771 Bancroft, George, on Franklin.......... remarks on Prescott............ Banks, Sir Joseph.... 37 Brides, the Two, by Stoddard.. 764 437 British Spy, by Wirt...... 192 98 Broken Household.. 732 Barnes, Daniel II... 254 Bartram, William, his garden..... 144 Battle, Evening after a... Brotherhood of Man, by Washington...... 52 356 ............ 107 ................... 385 Brown, C. B., Prescott's remarks on......... 178 430 ...... 297 Buccaneer, Dana's........... 304 Beautiful, Hymn to the, by Stoddard...... 762 Bucket, the Old Oaken........ 299 511 Bunker Hill Monument, by Webster...... 266 Belle, the. 91 Bunyan in his Cell, by Cheever... 572 Belle and Beau of the Indian...... 240 Buried Valley, by Mellen............ 474 Bellows, Henry W., Character of Chan- Burke's philanthropy... 644 Burns, Halleck's lines on....... 410 Benevolence, by Allston.... 232 Burr, Aaron, trial of, and his character... 124 Bible as a School-Book... 82 Burr and Blannerhasset... Bible, Dr. Alexander's remarks on.......... 189 Butler, E. H. & Co........ 373 Bible, its value, by J. Q. Adams........ Bible versus Slavery... 463 Biddle, Nicholas, editor of Portfolio...... 157 Campbell, Thomas, - Tuckerman's re- PAGE Cheever, George B., on Dana's poems 304, 307 PAGK ... 571 374 315 Conybeare and Howson's St. Paul.. Children, by H. W. Beecher............ Children, what are they?. City of David, description of, by Hillhouse 326 Classical Learning, Judge Story on......... 271 Clay, Henry, Channing's letters to.......... 242 608 595 Dana, Richard Henry, Jr........... 272 founder of a Law Professorship. 270 ......... 483 101 |