The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865

CHAPTER II.

THE ICE IN ITS GLORY.

_June 17._--On this anniversary of the Battle of Bunker's Hill we sailed from Sleupe Harbor. Little Mecatina, with its blue perspective and billowy surface, lifted itself up astern under flooding sunshine to tell us that this relentless coast could have a glory of its own; but we looked at it with dreamy, forgetful eyes, thinking of the d...