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Proposed Group in Connection with the "Saviksue".
Acrolites.
The proposed group shown on the opposite page represents
a scene of a hundred years or more ago as described and in part
re-enacted for me by some of the older men of the present gener-
ation.
It is late in July and the midnight sun of the Arctic summer,
which has known no setting since early in May has shone incess-
,
antly upon the southward sloping mountian side on which the
Heaven-born brown womanand her dog rest until it has dissipated
all the snow except the perennial
drift filling the center
of the valley in the foreground and has raised the temperature
of the woman to the point which the natives know by long exper-
ience will allow them to detach small fragments of the mass with
the least dificulty.
On the left (north) rises the slope of a mountain thickly
strewn with gneissose boulders; to the right (south) rise the
black rocks of another mountain; eastward in the background
flows the groaning current of a great glacier, adding its count-
fleet
less of bergs to the frightful icy chaos of Melville Bay;
be-
yond this rise the sheer black cliffs which confine the glacier,
crested by the eternal ice-cap
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