The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . edingly numerous flock Micraij-mma^Dicksoni of barnacle geese—evidently migrating to Magnified twelve southerly regions, perhaps from some Polar land lying to the north of Cape Chelyuskin—a loom, somekittiwakes and ivory gulls, and remains of owls. Mammaliawere represented by the bear already mentioned, and by thereindeer and the lemming, whose traces and dung were seen onthe plains. In the sea, a walrus, several rough seals (Phocahispiida), and two sh
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . edingly numerous flock Micraij-mma^Dicksoni of barnacle geese—evidently migrating to Magnified twelve southerly regions, perhaps from some Polar land lying to the north of Cape Chelyuskin—a loom, somekittiwakes and ivory gulls, and remains of owls. Mammaliawere represented by the bear already mentioned, and by thereindeer and the lemming, whose traces and dung were seen onthe plains. In the sea, a walrus, several rough seals (Phocahispiida), and two shoals of white whales were seen. All rivers were now dried up, but wide, shallow river-bedsindicated that during the snow-melting season there was anabundant flow of water. The rush of snow rivulets and the cryof birds then certainly cause an interruption in the desolationand silence which were now spread over the clay beds of theplains, nearly bare of all vegetation. Probably, however, a littlefarther into the country, in some valley protected from the windsof the Polar Sea, we might find quite different natural condi- s 2.
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