. Ski-running . d, till stopped by the waters of the Atlantic on the shoresof the Scandinavian peninsula. There can be little doubt, how-ever, that pattens were used for hundx*eds, if not thousands, ofyears before the thought of sliding over the snow, which led tothe introduction of ski, entered the head of some inventivegenius. The original ski were probably constructed by theChukchis, or similar tribes, near the Behring Straits, or Sea ofOkhotsk. They were formed, as already intimated, of. elongatedframes covered with leather, and were modified, subsequently,as migration increased, forests w
. Ski-running . d, till stopped by the waters of the Atlantic on the shoresof the Scandinavian peninsula. There can be little doubt, how-ever, that pattens were used for hundx*eds, if not thousands, ofyears before the thought of sliding over the snow, which led tothe introduction of ski, entered the head of some inventivegenius. The original ski were probably constructed by theChukchis, or similar tribes, near the Behring Straits, or Sea ofOkhotsk. They were formed, as already intimated, of. elongatedframes covered with leather, and were modified, subsequently,as migration increased, forests were met with, and wood wasfound to be a better and more durable material for the purposerequired. It will thus be seen that ski were extensively used in olden* Scandinavian ? Scandinavians as well as others. They also foundtheir way from Nonvay to Iceland and Greenland. Of ski thereare manv tvpos. The skridsko (sliding shoos), or ski of the. Fig. 2 —Skrid-Finner Imnting (Olaus Magnus, ca. ).
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