A Pacific Coast Vacation

MRS. JAMES EDWIN MORRIS.
BY Mrs. JAMES EDWIN MORRIS
Illustrated from Photographs Taken En Route by James Edwin Morris
THE Abbey Press PUBLISHERS 114 FIFTH AVENUE LONDON NEW YORK MONTREAL
Copyright, 1901, by THE Abbey Press
Dedicated to Alaska’s Beautiful Daughter,
Miss Edna McFarland
Linked in my memory of those sea-girt shores where snow-crowned mountains tower like castles old; where wild cataracts hurl their waters down rugged cliffs to the sea; where sea gulls mingle their cries with the rushing torrents; where frost giants stride up and down the land; where the Aurora flames through the long winter nights, will ever be the name of this gifted daughter of Alaska.
If you ask what motive she who loved these scenes had in essaying to portray them with pen and camera, she would reply that like the Duke of Buckingham, when visiting the scene where Anna of Austria had whispered that she loved him, let fall a precious gem that another finding it, might be happy in that charméd spot where he himself had been.
A Pacific Coast Vacation
Off to see the land of icebergs and glaciers; the land I have often visited in my imagination. It seems but yesterday that the first geography was put into my hands. O, that dear old geography, the silent companion of my childhood days.
The first page to which I opened pictured an iceberg, with a polar bear walking right up the perpendicular side, and another bold fellow sitting on top as serenely as Patience on a monument.