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... course an undecided question : so much is cer- tain , that the observations hitherto made during the winter of the Arctic re- gions have been limited to too short a time , and are too few in number , to en- able us to determine with any ...
... course an undecided question : so much is cer- tain , that the observations hitherto made during the winter of the Arctic re- gions have been limited to too short a time , and are too few in number , to en- able us to determine with any ...
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... course of ages the sun conducted his herd of planets into more solitary and colder regions , which caused the warm miocene times to be followed by the glacial period , during which the Swiss flat lands bore an Arctic character , and ...
... course of ages the sun conducted his herd of planets into more solitary and colder regions , which caused the warm miocene times to be followed by the glacial period , during which the Swiss flat lands bore an Arctic character , and ...
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... moon , which for days continually circles around the horizon , never setting until she has run her long course of brightness . The. AURORA SEEN IN GREENLAND . THE MUSK - OX . 32 THE POLAR WORLD . Aurora seen in Greenland.
... moon , which for days continually circles around the horizon , never setting until she has run her long course of brightness . The. AURORA SEEN IN GREENLAND . THE MUSK - OX . 32 THE POLAR WORLD . Aurora seen in Greenland.
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Georg Hartwig. she has run her long course of brightness . The uniform whiteness of the land- scape and the general transparency of the atmosphere add to the lustre of her beams , which serve the natives to guide their nomadic life , and ...
Georg Hartwig. she has run her long course of brightness . The uniform whiteness of the land- scape and the general transparency of the atmosphere add to the lustre of her beams , which serve the natives to guide their nomadic life , and ...
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... course multiply very fast under favorable circumstances , and are then forced to leave the district . which is no longer able to afford them food . But this takes place very sel- dom , for when Mr. Brehm visited Scandinavia , the people ...
... course multiply very fast under favorable circumstances , and are then forced to leave the district . which is no longer able to afford them food . But this takes place very sel- dom , for when Mr. Brehm visited Scandinavia , the people ...
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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...