MIDNIGHT IN THE FAR NORTH.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1086, 4 August 1871, Page 2

MIDNIGHT IN THE FAR NORTH.

The following graphic passage is from the description of a scene witnessed by Mr Campbell and his party in the north of Norway, from a cliff 1000 feet above the level of the sea: —" The ocean stretched away in silent vastness at our feet; the sound of the wave scarcely reaehed our airy look-out; away in the north the great old sun swung low along the horizon, like the slow beat of the pendulum in the tall clock of our grandfather's parlor corner. We all stood silent, looking at our watches. When both hands came together at 12, midnight, the full round orb hung triumphantly above the wave—-a bridge of gold running due north spanned the water above us and him. There he shone in silent majesty which knew no setting. We involuntarily took off our hats, and no word was said. Combine, if you can, the most brilliant sunrise and sunset you ever saw, and its beauties will pale before the gorgeous coloring which now lit up the ocean, heavens, and mountains. In half-an hour the sun had swung by perceptibly on his beat, the colors changed to those of the morning, .a fresh breeze rippled over the flood, one songster after another piped up in the grove behind us, We had passed iuto another day,"