. The polar and tropical worlds [microform] : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe : two volumes in one : embracing also an account of the expeditions of all the Arctic explorers from the discovery of Iceland, over one thousand years ago, to Hall's last expedition in the northern world, together with the wonderful discoveries and adventures of Agassiz, Livingstone, Wallace, and other distinguished travelers in the tropical countries. Arctic races; Tropics; Natural history; Races arctiques; Régions tropicales; Sciences naturelles; genealogy. CONtilKST
. The polar and tropical worlds [microform] : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe : two volumes in one : embracing also an account of the expeditions of all the Arctic explorers from the discovery of Iceland, over one thousand years ago, to Hall's last expedition in the northern world, together with the wonderful discoveries and adventures of Agassiz, Livingstone, Wallace, and other distinguished travelers in the tropical countries. Arctic races; Tropics; Natural history; Races arctiques; Régions tropicales; Sciences naturelles; genealogy. CONtilKST OF HinEHIA BY T"^ RUSSIANS. MS found ill tfi'C'it iiumltcrs aloiiijj iho »horos, or on tlu> stoop ninl sandy rivor-bankH of NoitliiTii Siberia, aioiii; wilii tlntso <tf fossil spociL'S of tlic lioiso, tlio musk- ox, mid llio bison, wliicb liavo now totally forsakt'ii tlio Arctic wilds. Tlic Arcliipt'laii;o of Now Siberia, wituutod to the north of tin- Li'uliow Isl- iiiids, was discovered by Sirowatsky in ls(»(l, and since then scienlitically ex- plored by Ilodenstri'tni in IMOS, .and Anjou in These islands are remark- able no less for the numerous bones of horses, l»ulTaloes, oxen, and sheep scat- tend over their desolatis blioros, than for the vast (piantities of fossil-wootl iin- beilded in tlu'ir soil. The hills, which rise to a consiilerai)le altitude, consist of liorizontal beds of sandstone, alternatinii with bituminous beams or truidis of trees. On ascendini; tliem, b)ssili/,ed charcoal is everywheie met with, in- cnisted with an ash-eolorod matti'r, which is so hard that it can scarcely be .scraped off with a knife. On the summit there is a lonif row of beams resem- Miiii,' the former, but fixed perpendicularly in the sandstone. The ends, which project from seven to ten inches, a.'e for the most part broken, and the whole lias the appoarantie of a r-iioous dike. Thus ft robust forest voufetation onco flourished where now only lichens can be
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