The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . te dissimilar appearance in Siberia and Scandinavia : 1 According to Latkin, Die Lena und ihr Flussgebiet {Petermann^aMittheihingen, 1879, p. 91). On the map which accompanies Engehardtsreproduction of Wrangels Journey (Berlin, 1839), the limit of trees at theLena is placed at 71° N. L. !•] THE LIMIT OF TREES. :-i7 ill the latter country, the farthest outposts of the forests towardsthe north consist of scraggy birches, which, notwithstandingtheir stunted stems, c
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . te dissimilar appearance in Siberia and Scandinavia : 1 According to Latkin, Die Lena und ihr Flussgebiet {Petermann^aMittheihingen, 1879, p. 91). On the map which accompanies Engehardtsreproduction of Wrangels Journey (Berlin, 1839), the limit of trees at theLena is placed at 71° N. L. !•] THE LIMIT OF TREES. :-i7 ill the latter country, the farthest outposts of the forests towardsthe north consist of scraggy birches, which, notwithstandingtheir stunted stems, clothe the mountain sides with a verylively and close green; while in Siberia the outermost trees aregnarled and half-withered larches {Larix dahurica, Turcz.),which stick up over the tops of the hills like a thin greybrush.^ North of this limit there are to be seen on the Yenisejluxuriant bushes of willow and alder. That in Siberia too, thelarge wootl, some hundreds or thousands of years ago, wentfarther north than now, is shown by colossal tree-stumps foundstill standing in the tundra, nor is it necessary now to go far -i:. %.: M^
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