 | James W. Shepp, Daniel B. Shepp - 1892 - 538 pages
...hundred and seventy feet. The northern sun, creeping at midnight (the time this photograph was taken) along the horizon, and the immeasurable ocean in apparent contact with the skies, form the grandest outlines and the most sublime pictures to the astonished beholder. Here, as in a dream, the... | |
 | Trumbull White - 1902 - 752 pages
...green, mossy slope to the top. Here the hour of midnight is awaited, when the northern sun, creeping along the horizon, and the immeasurable ocean in apparent contact with the skies, form the grand outlines in the sublime picture presented. With the North Cape ends the island belt, and the coast is washed... | |
 | Karl Baedeker (Firm) - 1909 - 668 pages
...Nordkyn; S. the plateau of the Magere, with its patches of snow, its ponds, and scanty vegetation. 'The northern sun, creeping at midnight at the distance...apparent contact with the skies, form the grand outlines in the sublime picture presented to the astonished spectator. The incessant cares and pursuits of anxious... | |
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Lapland, is no longer heard in this scene of desolation ; the ruggedness of the dark grey rock is not covered by a single shrub ; the only music is the hoarse murmuring of the waves, ever and anon renewing their assaults on the huge masses that oppose... 
