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 ...
... 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 ...
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... covered with stately forests . The same poplars and the same swamp - cypress ( Taxo- dium dubium ) which then flourished in North Greenland have been found in a fossilized state at Bell Sound ( 76 ° N. ) by the Swedish naturalists , who ...
... covered with stately forests . The same poplars and the same swamp - cypress ( Taxo- dium dubium ) which then flourished in North Greenland have been found in a fossilized state at Bell Sound ( 76 ° N. ) by the Swedish naturalists , who ...
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Página 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.
Página 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...