The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . ERIA. At Boganida, after Middendorf. south of the extreme limit, before the river banks are to beseen crowned with high, flourishing, luxuriant trees. The climate at Maosoe is not distinguished by any severewinter cold,- but the air is moist and raw nearly all the year On the Kola Peiiinsul;i, and in the neighbourhood of the White Sea,as far as to Ural, the limit of trees consists of a species of pine {PiceaohovuUi, Ledeb.), but farther east in Kaiuschatka again
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . ERIA. At Boganida, after Middendorf. south of the extreme limit, before the river banks are to beseen crowned with high, flourishing, luxuriant trees. The climate at Maosoe is not distinguished by any severewinter cold,- but the air is moist and raw nearly all the year On the Kola Peiiinsul;i, and in the neighbourhood of the White Sea,as far as to Ural, the limit of trees consists of a species of pine {PiceaohovuUi, Ledeb.), but farther east in Kaiuschatka again of birch.— Middendorff, Reise in dem ausserstm Norden uml Osten Sibiriens,vol. iv. p. 582. ^ An idea of the influence exerted by the immediate neighbourhood of awarm ocean-current in making the climate milder may be obtained fromthe following table of the mean temjieratures of the different months at1. Tromsoe (6^° 30 N. L.); 2. Fruhulni, near North Cape (71° 6 N. L.) ; 38 THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. [chap. round. The region would however be very healthy, did notscurvy, especially in humid winters, attack the THE CLOUDBERRY (rUBUS CHAMMMORUS, L.). Fruit of the natural size. Flowering stalks diminished. 3. A^ardoe (70 22 N. L.) ; 4. Enontekis and Karesuando, on the i-iverMuonio, in the interior of Lapland (68° 2G N. L.). Tromsoe. Fnthiilm. Varrloe. Enontekis. January - 4-2° -2 7° -6-0° -13-7° February - 4-0 -4-7 -6-4 --17-1 March - 3-8 -3-2 -5-1 -11-4 April - 0-1 -0-9 -1-7 - 6-0 May + 3-2 +2-7 +1-8 + 0-9 June + 8-7 +7-5 +5-9 -f 8-0 July +11-5 +9-3 4-8-8 +11-6 August +10-4 +9-9 +9-8 +12-0 September +7-0 -4-5-8 -|-(v4 -|- 4-5 + 2-0 -f 2 5 +1-3 - 4-0 November - 1-7 -M -2-1 - 9-9 December -3-2 -1-9 -40 -11-3 The figures are taken from H. Mohns Norges Klima (reprinted from C. VcvxtUvet i Norge, J^\\x\iii\a,mi\, 1879), and A. J. Angstrom, Omlufttemperaturen i Enontekis (Ofvers, af Vet. Akad. Forhandl., 1860). i.] EARLY EXPLORERS. 39 educ
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