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... and gray lichens form the chief vegetation , and a few scanty grasses or dwarfish flowers. INDIAN SUMMER ENCAMPMENT , ALASKA . VERGE OF FOREST REGION . forms a vast circle ,. 18 THE POLAR WORLD . Indian Summer Encampment, Alaska.
... and gray lichens form the chief vegetation , and a few scanty grasses or dwarfish flowers. INDIAN SUMMER ENCAMPMENT , ALASKA . VERGE OF FOREST REGION . forms a vast circle ,. 18 THE POLAR WORLD . Indian Summer Encampment, Alaska.
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... chief vegetation of the treeless zone , the cruciferæ , the grasses , the saxifragas , the caryophyllæ , and the compositæ are the families of plants most largely represented in the barren grounds or tundri . Though vegetation becomes ...
... chief vegetation of the treeless zone , the cruciferæ , the grasses , the saxifragas , the caryophyllæ , and the compositæ are the families of plants most largely represented in the barren grounds or tundri . Though vegetation becomes ...
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... chief means for keeping them in check . A wet summer , an early cold and snowless autumn destroy them by millions , and then of course years are necessary to recruit their numbers . With the exception of the bear and the hedgehog , they ...
... chief means for keeping them in check . A wet summer , an early cold and snowless autumn destroy them by millions , and then of course years are necessary to recruit their numbers . With the exception of the bear and the hedgehog , they ...
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... chief resorts are Spitzbergen , Nova Zembla , North Greenland , the shores of Hudson's and Baffin's bays ; and on the opposite side of the Polar Ocean , the coasts of Ber- ing's Sea , and to the north of Bering's Straits , the American ...
... chief resorts are Spitzbergen , Nova Zembla , North Greenland , the shores of Hudson's and Baffin's bays ; and on the opposite side of the Polar Ocean , the coasts of Ber- ing's Sea , and to the north of Bering's Straits , the American ...
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... chief rivers of Iceland are , in the south , the Thiorsa and the Hvita , which are not inferior in width , to the Rhine in the middle part of its course ; in the north , the Skjalfandafljot and the Jökulsa and the Jökulsa i Axarfirdi ...
... chief rivers of Iceland are , in the south , the Thiorsa and the Hvita , which are not inferior in width , to the Rhine in the middle part of its course ; in the north , the Skjalfandafljot and the Jökulsa and the Jökulsa i Axarfirdi ...
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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...