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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... once reigned in the Arctic Regions . - Its Cause according to Dr. Oswald Heer . - Peculiar Beauties of the Arctic Regions . - Sunset . - Long lunar Nights . - The Aurora ... .Page 17 CHAPTER II . ARCTIC LAND QUADRUPEDS AND BIRDS . The ...
... once reigned in the Arctic Regions . - Its Cause according to Dr. Oswald Heer . - Peculiar Beauties of the Arctic Regions . - Sunset . - Long lunar Nights . - The Aurora ... .Page 17 CHAPTER II . ARCTIC LAND QUADRUPEDS AND BIRDS . The ...
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... once reigned in the Arctic Regions . - Its Cause according to Dr. Oswald Heer . - Peculiar Beauties of the Arctic Regions . - Sunset . - Long lunar Nights . - The Aurora . 1 A GLANCE at a map of the Arctic regions shows us that many of ...
... once reigned in the Arctic Regions . - Its Cause according to Dr. Oswald Heer . - Peculiar Beauties of the Arctic Regions . - Sunset . - Long lunar Nights . - The Aurora . 1 A GLANCE at a map of the Arctic regions shows us that many of ...
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... once more return to the forest , and in a short time nothing is left that can in- duce man to prolong his stay in the treeless plain . Soon a thick mantle of snow covers the hardened earth , the frozen lake , the ice - bound river , and ...
... once more return to the forest , and in a short time nothing is left that can in- duce man to prolong his stay in the treeless plain . Soon a thick mantle of snow covers the hardened earth , the frozen lake , the ice - bound river , and ...
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... once have wandered through one of those celestial provinces where , as the telescope shows us , constellations are far more densely clustered . But , as every star is a blazing sun , the greater or lesser number of these heavenly bodies ...
... once have wandered through one of those celestial provinces where , as the telescope shows us , constellations are far more densely clustered . But , as every star is a blazing sun , the greater or lesser number of these heavenly bodies ...
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... the streams be- come shorter , less frequent , and less vivid ; and finally the gloom of winter once more descends upon the northern desert . 3 CHAPTER II . ARCTIC LAND QUADRUPEDS AND BIRDS . The THE ARCTIC LANDS . 33.
... the streams be- come shorter , less frequent , and less vivid ; and finally the gloom of winter once more descends upon the northern desert . 3 CHAPTER II . ARCTIC LAND QUADRUPEDS AND BIRDS . The THE ARCTIC LANDS . 33.
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