VI. MOUNTAINS AND ISLANDS. 1. "Albus ut obscuro deterget nubila cœlo Sæpe Notus,-" SPED we on by coast and island, Stemming e'en the stout, stern West-Wind, E'en the might of Mudjeykeewis, Him who drove but now before him All the host of grisly Vapours, That had muster'd from the South-East, From the realm of Shahwondahzy, Dreamy, slumbrous Shahwondahzy,— From the realm of wily Wahbun. 2. "Quo non arbiter Hadriæ Major, tollere seu ponere vult freta." Thus by Spar Isle a 32, and the brown crags, Where the violet-tinctured crystal b Gleams within her rocky casket, Thus by Agate Cove 32 we voyaged. Seldom in the warmth of summer 3. "Terribiles visu formæ -" Dimlier ever tow'r'd behind us Haught Ignace's cloud-throned grandeur: a Also called Fluor Isle. b The amethyst (see a. n. 32). Grim the shape it wore and aspect— Hand with clench'd palm, broad and shadowy, From the mere, in sign of anger, Rais'd to scare us and repel us. While we near'd, lo! spread a mountain,- C. (p. 78) writes:-"A dim, majestic outline in the far distance, seeming only to divide one part of the sky from the other, our voyageurs declared to be Thunder Cape, seventy or eighty miles off." Though in that region distant heights are sometimes remarkably clear, I think this must have been an exaggeration. We were, I should say, no more than forty miles off, or so. One was reminded of the report of Elijah's servant, on his return from a seventh ascent to the top of the Carmel headland:-" "Behold there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand" (1 Kings, xviii. 44). I have seen this "stormbetokening cloudlet" on the Laurentian lakes. 4. "Ille Creator Atque Opifex Rerum" Nigh us, lo! a group of green heights, So grotesquely ranged by Nature, That the visionary 74 savage, Paddling over broad Big Water, Sees there Ninnibohzhoo 39, the mighty, Here the wide world's mightful maker, Yon round knoll his head; yon broad slopes Show his noble breast distended; Yon fair, goodlier-swelling twin-hills d Are his giant-knees rear'd upward, While he taketh deep still slumber, Slumber to be broken never. The voyageurs call these Les mammelons, and Bay. has them, in his chart, as The Paps. 5. "Insula inexhaustis Chalybum generosa metallis." Tow'rd the realm of Shahwondahzy, Tow'rd the region of the South-Wind, Worthy of her title royal. 40 Rich her treasure, rock-embedded; 40 6. Acroceraunia." Round the long, low, tongue-like foreland, e By the long, jagg'd inlet sped we, |