the midnight sun
Up there great valleys are filled with snow and ice from hill-top to hill-top , reaching back up the valleys , in some instances from thirty to forty miles . This valley-ice is called a ` Mer de Glace , ' and has a motion down the valley , like any river , but of three feet more or less only per day . If time enough is allowed , vast quantities of this valley-ice move into the gulf or sea . When the sea is disturbed by a storm the ice wall or precipice is broken off , and enormous masses , often a hundred times larger than a big building , fall and float away with the report of the firing of a park of artillery , and these floating mountains of ice are lighted in their lonely pathways by the midnight sun . '' Before dinner , came the regular promenade which presented many contrasts . A pretty bride from the Blue Grass Region of Kentucky walked with her young husband whom she had first met at a New England seaside . She was glad to aid in bridging the chasm between north and south .