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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... situated as low as latitude 60 ° or even 50 ° , such as South Greenland , Labrador , Alaska , Kamchatka , or the country about Lake Baikal , have in their climate and productions a decidedly Arctic character , while others , of a far ...
... situated as low as latitude 60 ° or even 50 ° , such as South Greenland , Labrador , Alaska , Kamchatka , or the country about Lake Baikal , have in their climate and productions a decidedly Arctic character , while others , of a far ...
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... situated far nearer to the pole . Thus , to cite but a few examples , the western shores of Nova Zembla , fronting a wide expanse of sea , have an average winter temperature of only -4 ° , and a mean summer temper- ature but little ...
... situated far nearer to the pole . Thus , to cite but a few examples , the western shores of Nova Zembla , fronting a wide expanse of sea , have an average winter temperature of only -4 ° , and a mean summer temper- ature but little ...
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... situated far to the south , it then consisted of verdant lands covered with luxuriant forests and bathed by an open sea . What may have been the cause of these amazing changes of climate ? The readiest answer seems to be a different ...
... situated far to the south , it then consisted of verdant lands covered with luxuriant forests and bathed by an open sea . What may have been the cause of these amazing changes of climate ? The readiest answer seems to be a different ...
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... situated beyond the limits of agriculture . From the voles , to whom they are closely allied , they are distinguished by having the foot - sole covered with stiff hairs , and by the strong crooked claws with which their fore feet are ...
... situated beyond the limits of agriculture . From the voles , to whom they are closely allied , they are distinguished by having the foot - sole covered with stiff hairs , and by the strong crooked claws with which their fore feet are ...
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... situated to a considerable distance above it , or extends their height beyond their natural dimensions . Ice , land , ships , boats , and other objects , when thus enlarged and elevated , are said to loom . The lower part of looming ...
... situated to a considerable distance above it , or extends their height beyond their natural dimensions . Ice , land , ships , boats , and other objects , when thus enlarged and elevated , are said to loom . The lower part of looming ...
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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 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...