This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...up from the surface, like the steam from some great geyser; or, if a wind prevail, it is drifted like the smoke from a burning prairie. This scud, when driven inland, invests every tree and shrub with ice which, in the clear sunlight, flashes back the rays like so many surfaces of the purest crystal. "Arctic Journey." ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...up from the surface, like the steam from some great geyser; or, if a wind prevail, it is drifted like the smoke from a burning prairie. This scud, when driven inland, invests every tree and shrub with ice which, in the clear sunlight, flashes back the rays like so many surfaces of the purest crystal. "Arctic Journey." Climate of the Plains.--The climate of the Plains exhibits some peculiarities deserving of notice, --such as the purity of the air; the cloudless skies during certain seasons, giving to the landscape such sharply-defined outlines; the dewless nights; the illusive phantoms of the mirage; and the feeling of vastness which impresses every beholder as he stands on some high swell, and in every direction, sees the surface stretched out like a hemisphere. " Chicago Academy of Sciences," Vol. I. As in the distant north there is a mingling of spring and summer, so here the summer is protracted far into autumn. This is the most delightful season of the year, characterized by an absence of severe rain-storms, with a cool, bracing atmosphere, so gratifying to the physical system that man exults "in the intense consciousness" of his existence. That delicious season known as " Indian summer" is often prolonged into December, when a calm, soft, hazy atmosphere fills the sky, through which, day after day, the sun, shorn of his beams, rises and sets like a globe of fire. This peculiarity is observed as far north as Lake Superior, but is more conspicuous and protracted in Kansas and Missouri, but does not extend south, into the lower latitudes of the United States. Thus it will be seen that the Mississippi Valley possesses a great diversity of climate; and this is naturally to be inferred, when we consider that it extends...
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