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... Icelandic Moss . - Present and Former Range of the Reindeer . - Its invalu- able Qualities as an Arctic domestic ... ICELAND . Volcanic Origin of the Island . - The Klofa Jökul.Lava - streams . - The Burning Mountains of Krisu- vik ...
... Icelandic Moss . - Present and Former Range of the Reindeer . - Its invalu- able Qualities as an Arctic domestic ... ICELAND . Volcanic Origin of the Island . - The Klofa Jökul.Lava - streams . - The Burning Mountains of Krisu- vik ...
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... Icelandic Literary Society . - Icelandic Newspapers . - Longevity . - Leprosy . - Travelling in Iceland . - Fording the Rivers . - Crossing of the Skeidara by Mr. Holland . - A Night's Bivouac .. CHAPTER VIII . THE WESTMAN ISLANDS ...
... Icelandic Literary Society . - Icelandic Newspapers . - Longevity . - Leprosy . - Travelling in Iceland . - Fording the Rivers . - Crossing of the Skeidara by Mr. Holland . - A Night's Bivouac .. CHAPTER VIII . THE WESTMAN ISLANDS ...
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... Iceland .. 61. Icelandic Bog . 62. Coast of Iceland 63. Westman Isles .. 64. Home of Sea - birds . 65. Fishing in Norway . 66. Norwegian Farm • • · • • • 67. Steaming along the Coast . 68. The Puffin ... 69. The Dovrefjeld .. 70 ...
... Iceland .. 61. Icelandic Bog . 62. Coast of Iceland 63. Westman Isles .. 64. Home of Sea - birds . 65. Fishing in Norway . 66. Norwegian Farm • • · • • • 67. Steaming along the Coast . 68. The Puffin ... 69. The Dovrefjeld .. 70 ...
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... Icelandic moss . In more tenacious soils , other plants flourish , not however to the exclusion of lichens , ex- cept in tracts of meadow ground , which occur in sheltered situations , or in the COAST OF LABRADOR . کہا alluvial ...
... Icelandic moss . In more tenacious soils , other plants flourish , not however to the exclusion of lichens , ex- cept in tracts of meadow ground , which occur in sheltered situations , or in the COAST OF LABRADOR . کہا alluvial ...
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... Icelandic Moss . - Present and Former Range of the Reindeer . - Its invalu- able Qualities as an Arctic domestic Animal . - Revolts against Oppression . - Enemies of the Rein- deer . The Wolf . - The Glutton or Wolverine . - Gad - flies ...
... Icelandic Moss . - Present and Former Range of the Reindeer . - Its invalu- able Qualities as an Arctic domestic Animal . - Revolts against Oppression . - Enemies of the Rein- deer . The Wolf . - The Glutton or Wolverine . - Gad - flies ...
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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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Page 6 - A Greek-English Lexicon. Compiled by HG LIDDELL, DD Dean of Christ Church, and R. SCOTT, D,D. Dean of Rochester.
Page 3 - WHYMPER'S ALASKA. Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska, formerly Russian America— now Ceded to the United States— and in various other parts of the North Pacific.
Page 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.
Page 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...