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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... Winds . - Extremes of Cold observed by Sir E. Belcher and Dr. Kane . - How is Man able to support the Rigors of an Arctic Winter ? — Proofs of a milder Climate having once reigned in the Arctic Regions . - Its Cause according to Dr ...
... Winds . - Extremes of Cold observed by Sir E. Belcher and Dr. Kane . - How is Man able to support the Rigors of an Arctic Winter ? — Proofs of a milder Climate having once reigned in the Arctic Regions . - Its Cause according to Dr ...
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... winds which sweep unchecked over the islands or the flat coast - lands of the Polar Ocean , and for miles and miles compel even the hardiest plant to crouch before the blast and creep along the ground . > Nothing can be more melancholy ...
... winds which sweep unchecked over the islands or the flat coast - lands of the Polar Ocean , and for miles and miles compel even the hardiest plant to crouch before the blast and creep along the ground . > Nothing can be more melancholy ...
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... wind sweeps it away and lays bare the naked 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 latitudes ...
... wind sweeps it away and lays bare the naked 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 latitudes ...
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... zone is both indistinct and irregular . In some parts where the cold sea - winds have a wider range , the barren grounds encroach consider- ably upon the limits of the forests ; in others. THE ARCTIC LANDS . 21 Coast of Labrador.
... zone is both indistinct and irregular . In some parts where the cold sea - winds have a wider range , the barren grounds encroach consider- ably upon the limits of the forests ; in others. THE ARCTIC LANDS . 21 Coast of Labrador.
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... wind , until finally the last remnants of arboreal vegetation , vanquished by the blasts of winter , seek refuge under a carpet of lichens and mosses , from which their annual shoots hardly venture to peep forth . A third peculiarity ...
... wind , until finally the last remnants of arboreal vegetation , vanquished by the blasts of winter , seek refuge under a carpet of lichens and mosses , from which their annual shoots hardly venture to peep forth . A third peculiarity ...
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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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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...