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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... Trees . - Slowness of their Growth . - Monotony of the Northern Forests . - Mosquitoes . - The various Causes which determine the Severity of an Arctic Climate . - Insular and Continental Position . - Currents . - Winds . - Extremes of ...
... Trees . - Slowness of their Growth . - Monotony of the Northern Forests . - Mosquitoes . - The various Causes which determine the Severity of an Arctic Climate . - Insular and Continental Position . - Currents . - Winds . - Extremes of ...
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... Trees . - Slowness of their Growth . - Monotony of the Northern Forests . - Mosquitoes . - The various Causes which determine the Severity of an Arctic Climate . — Insular and Continental Position . - Currents . - Winds . - Extremes of ...
... Trees . - Slowness of their Growth . - Monotony of the Northern Forests . - Mosquitoes . - The various Causes which determine the Severity of an Arctic Climate . — Insular and Continental Position . - Currents . - Winds . - Extremes of ...
Side 18
... tree- less wastes . The latter , comprising the islands within the Arctic Circle , form a belt , more or less broad ... trees is caused not so much by its high northern latitude as by the cold sea - winds which sweep unchecked over the ...
... tree- less wastes . The latter , comprising the islands within the Arctic Circle , form a belt , more or less broad ... trees is caused not so much by its high northern latitude as by the cold sea - winds which sweep unchecked over the ...
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... trees in 71 ° N. , and then fall again toward the Obi , where the forests do not even reach the Arctic circle . From the Obi the tundri retreat farther and farther to the north , until finally , on the coasts of Norway , in latitude 70 ...
... trees in 71 ° N. , and then fall again toward the Obi , where the forests do not even reach the Arctic circle . From the Obi the tundri retreat farther and farther to the north , until finally , on the coasts of Norway , in latitude 70 ...
Side 23
... trees , these northern woods are almost entirely composed of conif- eræ , and one single kind of fir or pine often covers an immense extent of ground . The European and Asiatic species differ , however. THE ARCTIC LANDS . 23.
... trees , these northern woods are almost entirely composed of conif- eræ , and one single kind of fir or pine often covers an immense extent of ground . The European and Asiatic species differ , however. THE ARCTIC LANDS . 23.
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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...