A pallid sun, low, gleaming just over a rampart of mountain-tops. Sundogs--heralds of stormy weather--fiercely staring, like sentries, upon either hand of the mighty sphere of light. Vast glaciers shimmering jewel-like in the steely light of the semi-Arctic evening. Black belts of gloomy pinewoods on the lower slopes of the mountains; the trees snow-burdened, but black with the darkness of night in their melancholy depths. The earth white; snow to the thickness of many feet on all. Life none; not a beast of the earth, nor a fowl of the air, nor the hum of an insect. Solitude. Cold--grey, pitiless cold. Night is approaching. The hill ranges which backbone the American continent--the northern…
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