A Mysterious Phenomenon

Numbers of explorers, -wlio have eougiit the Artic regiems in qnest of the pole, have told oi a mysteriou city imirroreil ngaiiust that norther sky- Btately iniildings in clioice archi tecture, tall and imposing spires, bu such. na üdifer frora aaiything we knew of. Wliether the foundation of this mirag is a reality and only recognizable, beeause of transposition as to öirectioms, -wliether it is the work of fome mysterious remnant oï our race tliat oixoe occupieü lihe pole, or wbether tlnis is somo faneiful feature of tho frost, as. ►tlie peculiar shrubbery ■we pometimes fiee on the window-pane - whateTer this is, it must be consigned to the perplexing enigmas of the tmknown región. AVíio kmows trat that gome spot, oniee the theatre oï busy and advanced humaai life, may have escaped the general cataclysmal wreek and that lliis city may be the sllemt and as yet uudiscovereü -witness of pre polar time standing alone in the dead desolation, in the frigid ehroud oï now ar deuth ! lï we must ae uorreu trom this undiscovered country we may add to our equipment ly a careful notins of lts mirage and then give in Hiifi basis of these plienomena a