After Icebergs
WITH A
PAINTER
ICEBERG AT SUNSET
D. APPLETON & Co. 443 & 445 BROADWAY
Lith. of Sarony Major & Knapp 449 Broadway NY.
AFTER ICEBERGS
WITH A PAINTER:
A
SUMMER VOYAGE TO LABRADOR AND AROUND
NEWFOUNDLAND.
BY
REV. LOUIS L. NOBLE,
AUTHOR OF THE “LIFE OF COLE,” “POEMS,” ETC.
NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,
443 & 445 BROADWAY.
LONDON: 16 LITTLE BRITAIN.
M.DCCC.LXI.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861,
By D. APPLETON & CO.,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern
District of New York.
TO
E. D. PALMER,
THE SCULPTOR,
THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY
Dedicated.
PREFACE.
The title-page alone would serve for a prefaceto the present volume. It is the record of avoyage, during the summer of 1859, in companywith a distinguished landscape painter, along thenorth-eastern coast of British America, for the purposeof studying and sketching icebergs.
It was thought, at first, that the shores in theneighborhood of St. Johns, Newfoundland, uponwhich many bergs are often floated in, would affordall facilities. It was found, however, upon experiment,that they did not. Icebergs were toofew for the requisite variety; too scattered to bereached conveniently; and too distant to be minutelyexamined from land. One needed to be inthe midst of them, where he could commandviews, near or remote, of all sides of them, at allhours of the day and evening.
For that purpose a small vessel was hired totake us to Labrador. Favoring circumstances directedus to Battle Harbor, near Cape St. Louis, inthe waters of which icebergs, and all facilities forsketching them, abounded.
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