The Arctic Home in the Vedas c6.14

c6.14

The dawn in the tropical or the temperate zone is but brief and evanescent, and it recurs after every 24 hours. But still it has formed the subject of poetical descriptions in different countries. If so, how much more the spectacle of a splendid long dawn, after a darkness of two months, would delight the heart of a Polar observer, and how he will yearn for the first appearance of the light on the horizon, can be better imagined than described. I quote the following description of this long Polar dawn from Dr. Warren's *Paradise Found*, and invite special attention to it, inasmuch as it forms one of the principal characteristics of the North Pole. Premising that the splendours of the Polar dawn are indescribable, Dr. Warren proceeds:—