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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... Rocks and Ice .. 5. Coast of Labrador . 6. Coast of Norway . 7. Arctic Forest .. 8. Verge of Forest Region . 9 ... Rock .. 46. Fall of the Oxeraa . • 47. Icelandic Horses . 48. Shooting Reindeer 49. The Eider - duck . 50. The Jyrfalcon ...
... Rocks and Ice .. 5. Coast of Labrador . 6. Coast of Norway . 7. Arctic Forest .. 8. Verge of Forest Region . 9 ... Rock .. 46. Fall of the Oxeraa . • 47. Icelandic Horses . 48. Shooting Reindeer 49. The Eider - duck . 50. The Jyrfalcon ...
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... rock . This snow , which after it has once fallen persists until the long summer's day has effectually thawed it , protects in an admirable manner the vegetation of the higher ... ROCKS AND ICE . 50 ( Rensselaer Bay ) , THE ARCTIC LANDS . 19.
... rock . This snow , which after it has once fallen persists until the long summer's day has effectually thawed it , protects in an admirable manner the vegetation of the higher ... ROCKS AND ICE . 50 ( Rensselaer Bay ) , THE ARCTIC LANDS . 19.
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... barren grounds or tundri . Though vegetation becomes more and more uniform on advancing to the north , yet the number of individual plants does not decrease . When the soil is moderately dry , the surface is. 20 THE POLAR WORLD : Rocks and.
... barren grounds or tundri . Though vegetation becomes more and more uniform on advancing to the north , yet the number of individual plants does not decrease . When the soil is moderately dry , the surface is. 20 THE POLAR WORLD : Rocks and.
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... rocks , has everywhere been found to rise to a considerable altitude above the level of the sea ; and should there be land at the North Pole , there is every reason to believe that it is destitute neither of animal nor vege- table life ...
... rocks , has everywhere been found to rise to a considerable altitude above the level of the sea ; and should there be land at the North Pole , there is every reason to believe that it is destitute neither of animal nor vege- table life ...
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... is hardly able to scare it from its prey . Its feet are very short , so that it can not run swiftly , but it climbs with great facility , upon trees , or ascends even almost perpendicular rock - THE ARCTIC LANDS . 37.
... is hardly able to scare it from its prey . Its feet are very short , so that it can not run swiftly , but it climbs with great facility , upon trees , or ascends even almost perpendicular rock - THE ARCTIC LANDS . 37.
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Aleuts animal Antarctic appearance Arctic Arctic fox baidar banks bear birds boat Cape Captain Castrén chief climate coast cold Cossacks covered distance dogs Esquimaux expedition farther feet fish forests frequently grass Greenland ground Hammerfest height herds horses Hudson's Bay Hudson's Bay Company hunters Iceland Icelandic horses Indians inhabitants island Jakut Jakutsk Jenissei journey Kamchatka lake land Lapland Lapp latitude length less Middendorff miles mountains navigators night northern Norwegian Nova Zembla Obdorsk obliged ocean once Ostiaks party Polar Sea pole reached regions reindeer river rocks Russian sailed Samoïedes scarcely seal season seldom ship shores Siberia Sir James Ross skins sledge snow soon Spitzbergen spot stones storm strait stream summer Tchuktchi temperature tent thick tion traveller trees tribes tundra vast vegetation versts vessels voyage walrus whale whole wild wind winter Yermak
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