DEPARTMENT OF THE ETERNAL BLUE SKY |
| DIRECTOR Ghengis Khan |
ABOUT
Though sensible of the advantages of fortune, I can be happy without itr if I should ever be rich enough to live in the world, no one will enjoy it with greater gust; if not, I can with great spirit, provided I find such a companion as I wish, retire from it to love, content, and a cottage: by which I mean to the life of a little country gentleman.
You ask me my opinion of the winter here. If you can bear a degree of cold,, of which Europeans can form no idea, it is far from being unpleasant; we have settled frost, and an eternal blue sky. Travelling in this country in winter is particularly agreable: the carriages are easy, and go on the ice with an amazing velocity, though drawn only by one horse.
The continual plain of snow would be extremely fatiguing both to the eye and imagination, were not both relieved, not
oniy
only by the woods in prospect, but by the . tall branches of pines with which the road is marked out on each side, and which form a verdant avenue agreably contrasted with the dazzling whiteness of the snow, on which, when the sun shines, it is almost impossible to look steadily even for a moment.
Were it not for this method of marking out the roads, it would be impossible to find the way from one village to another.
The eternal sameness however of this avenue is tiresome when you go far in one
road.