Winter Animals
only new
and ser routes to many points, but neheir surfaces
of ts Pond,
after it en paddled about and
skated over it, it edly range t I
could t Baffins Bay. the Lincoln hills rose up
around me at tremity of a snowy plain, in w
remember to ood before; and t an
indeterminable distance over t heir
her
loomed like fabulous creatures, and I did not know whey were
giants or pygmies. I took t to lecture in
Lincoln in travelling in no road and passing no house
beture room. In Goose Pond, which lay
in my s d, and raised their cabins high
above t.
alden, being like t usually bare of snoh only
serrupted drifts on it, was my yard where I could walk
freely deep on a level elsewhere
and to treets. there, far from
treet, and except at very long intervals, from the
jingle of sleiged, as in a vast moose-yard
rodden, over doh
snoling h icicles.
For sounds in er nigen in er days, I heard
t melodious note of a ing oely far;
sucruck h a
suitable plectrum, the very lingua vernacula of alden ood, and
quite familiar to me at last, t
. I seldom opened my door in a er evening
; he
first ted somew like how der do; or
sometimes in ter,
before t nine oclock, I artled by
tepping to the
sound of tempest in they flew low
over my oward Fair haven,