The Polar World: a Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions of the GlobeHarper & Brothers, 1869 - 486 sider |
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... rise in myriads from the swamps . Thus during several months the tundra presents an animated scene , in which man also plays his part .. The birds of the air , the fishes of the water , the beasts of the earth , are all obliged to pay ...
... rise in myriads from the swamps . Thus during several months the tundra presents an animated scene , in which man also plays his part .. The birds of the air , the fishes of the water , the beasts of the earth , are all obliged to pay ...
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... rise toward the mouth of the Mackenzie , where the forests advance as high as 68 ° , or even still farther to the north along the low banks of that river . From the Mackenzie the barrens again descend until they reach Bering's Sea in 65 ...
... rise toward the mouth of the Mackenzie , where the forests advance as high as 68 ° , or even still farther to the north along the low banks of that river . From the Mackenzie the barrens again descend until they reach Bering's Sea in 65 ...
Side 27
... rise to a considerable altitude above the level of the sea ; and should there be land at the North Pole , there is every reason to believe that it is destitute neither of animal nor vege- table life . It would be equally erroneous to ...
... rise to a considerable altitude above the level of the sea ; and should there be land at the North Pole , there is every reason to believe that it is destitute neither of animal nor vege- table life . It would be equally erroneous to ...
Side 44
... rise into the air as soon as their piercing eye espies the universally dreaded tyrant , and thus escape ; while the former , blindly trusting to the ele- ment in which they are capable of finding a temporary refuge , allow him to ...
... rise into the air as soon as their piercing eye espies the universally dreaded tyrant , and thus escape ; while the former , blindly trusting to the ele- ment in which they are capable of finding a temporary refuge , allow him to ...
Side 48
... rise above the water to a much more considerable height than the ice - fields , have a very different or- igin , as they are not formed in the sea itself , but by the glaciers of the northern highlands . As our rivers are continually ...
... rise above the water to a much more considerable height than the ice - fields , have a very different or- igin , as they are not formed in the sea itself , but by the glaciers of the northern highlands . As our rivers are continually ...
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Aleuts animal Antarctic appearance Arctic Arctic fox baidar banks bear birds boat Cape Captain Castrén chief climate coast cold Cossacks covered distance dogs Esquimaux expedition farther feet fish forests frequently grass Greenland ground Hammerfest height herds horses Hudson's Bay Hudson's Bay Company hunters Iceland Icelandic horses Indians inhabitants island Jakut Jakutsk Jenissei journey Kamchatka lake land Lapland Lapp latitude length less Middendorff miles mountains navigators night northern Norwegian Nova Zembla Obdorsk obliged ocean once Ostiaks party Polar Sea pole reached regions reindeer river rocks Russian sailed Samoïedes scarcely seal season seldom ship shores Siberia Sir James Ross skins sledge snow soon Spitzbergen spot stones storm strait stream summer Tchuktchi temperature tent thick tion traveller trees tribes tundra vast vegetation versts vessels voyage walrus whale whole wild wind winter Yermak
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Side 6 - A Greek-English Lexicon. Compiled by HG LIDDELL, DD Dean of Christ Church, and R. SCOTT, D,D. Dean of Rochester.
Side 3 - WHYMPER'S ALASKA. Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska, formerly Russian America— now Ceded to the United States— and in various other parts of the North Pacific.
Side 428 - Whenever it is low water, winter or summer, night or day, they must rise to pick shell-fish from the rocks ; and the women either dive to collect sea-eggs, or sit patiently in their canoes, and with a baited hair-line, without any hook, jerk out little fish. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcass of a putrid whale discovered, it is a feast ; and such miserable food is assisted by a few tasteless berries and fungi.
Side 393 - The head of the bay, as well as two places on each side, was terminated by perpendicular ice-cliffs of considerable height. Pieces were continually breaking off, and floating out to sea ; and a great fall happened while we were in the bay, which made a noise like cannon. The inner parts of the country were not less savage and horrible. The wild rocks raised their...