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Updated: May 4, 2025
A few minutes more, and slowly, silently, in a manner you could take no count of, its dusky hem first deepened to a violet tinge, then gradually lifting, displayed a long line of coast in reality but the roots of Beerenberg dyed of the darkest purple; while, obedient to a common impulse, the clouds that wrapped its summit gently disengaged themselves, and left the mountain standing in all the magnificence of his 6,870 feet, girdled by a single zone of pearly vapour, from underneath whose floating folds seven enormous glaciers rolled down into the sea!
The most recent recorded landing on the island was effected twenty-two years ago, by the brave and pious Captain, now Dr. He had seen the mountain of Beerenberg one hundred miles off, and, on approaching, found the coast quite clear of ice.
While sailing southwards in a mist too thick to see a ship's length off, he. suddenly heard the noise of waters breaking on a great shore; and when the gigantic bases of Mount Beerenberg gradually disclosed themselves, he thought he had discovered some new continent. Since then it has been often sighted by homeward-bound whalers, but rarely landed upon.
Although by reason of our having hit upon its side instead of its narrow end the outline of Mount Beerenberg appeared to us more like a sugar-loaf than a spire broader at the base and rounder at the top than I had imagined, in size, colour, and effect, it far surpassed anything I had anticipated. The glaciers were quite an unexpected element of beauty.
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