The Polar World: a Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions of the GlobeHarper & Brothers, 1869 - 486 páginas |
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... covered by a warm crystal snow - mantle , the northern plants pass the long winter in a comparatively mild temperature , high enough to maintain their life , while , without , icy blasts - capable of converting mercury into a solid body ...
... covered by a warm crystal snow - mantle , the northern plants pass the long winter in a comparatively mild temperature , high enough to maintain their life , while , without , icy blasts - capable of converting mercury into a solid body ...
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Georg Hartwig. When the soil is moderately dry , the surface is covered by a dense carpet of lichens ( Cornicularia ) , mixed in damper spots with Icelandic moss . In more tenacious soils , other plants flourish , not however to the ...
Georg Hartwig. When the soil is moderately dry , the surface is covered by a dense carpet of lichens ( Cornicularia ) , mixed in damper spots with Icelandic moss . In more tenacious soils , other plants flourish , not however to the ...
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... covered with blighted buds that have been unable to develop themselves into branches , and which prove by their numbers how frequently and how vainly they have striven against the wind , until finally the last remnants of arboreal ...
... covered with blighted buds that have been unable to develop themselves into branches , and which prove by their numbers how frequently and how vainly they have striven against the wind , until finally the last remnants of arboreal ...
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... covered with vast fields of ice , from which frequently glaciers descend down to the verge of the sea . But even in the highest north- ern latitudes , no land has yet been found covered as far as the water's edge with eternal snow , or ...
... covered with vast fields of ice , from which frequently glaciers descend down to the verge of the sea . But even in the highest north- ern latitudes , no land has yet been found covered as far as the water's edge with eternal snow , or ...
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... cold , that he sleeps on our sledge journeys without a blanket or any other covering than his walking suit , while the outside tem- perature is -30 ° . ” There are many proofs that a milder climate once reigned 28 THE POLAR WORLD .
... cold , that he sleeps on our sledge journeys without a blanket or any other covering than his walking suit , while the outside tem- perature is -30 ° . ” There are many proofs that a milder climate once reigned 28 THE POLAR WORLD .
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