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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... Northern Provinces of the Russian Empire . - The Gold - diggings of Eastern Siberia .-- The Taiga . - Expenses and Difficulties of searching Expeditions . - Costs of Produce , and enormous Profits of successful Speculators . - Their ...
... Northern Provinces of the Russian Empire . - The Gold - diggings of Eastern Siberia .-- The Taiga . - Expenses and Difficulties of searching Expeditions . - Costs of Produce , and enormous Profits of successful Speculators . - Their ...
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... northern known Land 365 upon the Globe . - Koldewey . - Plans for future Voyages to the North Pole ..... CHAPTER XXXV . NEWFOUNDLAND . Its desolate Aspect . - Forests . - Marshes . - Barrens . - Ponds . - Fur - bearing Animals ...
... northern known Land 365 upon the Globe . - Koldewey . - Plans for future Voyages to the North Pole ..... CHAPTER XXXV . NEWFOUNDLAND . Its desolate Aspect . - Forests . - Marshes . - Barrens . - Ponds . - Fur - bearing Animals ...
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... Northern Forests . - Mosquitoes . - The various Causes which determine the Severity of an Arctic Climate . — Insular and Continental Position . - Currents . - Winds . - Extremes of Cold observed by Sir E. Belcher and Dr. Kane . - How is ...
... Northern Forests . - Mosquitoes . - The various Causes which determine the Severity of an Arctic Climate . — Insular and Continental Position . - Currents . - Winds . - Extremes of Cold observed by Sir E. Belcher and Dr. Kane . - How is ...
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... northern position , such as the coast of Norway , enjoy even in winter a remarkably mild temperature . But they are naturally divided into two principal and well - marked zones - that of the forests , and that of the tree- less wastes ...
... northern position , such as the coast of Norway , enjoy even in winter a remarkably mild temperature . But they are naturally divided into two principal and well - marked zones - that of the forests , and that of the tree- less wastes ...
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... 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- howl over the naked wilderness ; and as 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- howl over the naked wilderness ; and as the ...
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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...