. 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. 20 THE PO
. 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. 20 THE POLAU --^_^^r.;jm. J?^. KOCKS AND ICE. 50 (lionssolacr Bay), while tlio surface temperature was as low as —.SO", Kane fouial at two feet dooi) a tciiiperaturo of - 8'', at four feet -|-2"', and at eiirlit feet +'2(j°, or no more than six <le<,n'ees below the free/inii; point of water. Thus covered l)y a warm crystal snow mantle, the northern plants pass the loiiuj Avinter in a conqtaratively mild temperature, hii,di enou<;li to maintain their life, while, without, icy blasts—capable of convcrtin<i; mercury into a solid body-- howl over the naked wilderness; and as the finst snow-falls are more cellular and less condensed than the nearly impal])abL powder of winter, Kane justly observes that no " eider-down in the cradle of an infant is tucked in more kindly than the sleepiii;jc-<lress of winter about the feeble ])lant-life of the Arc- tic ; Thanks to this protection, and to the influence of a sum which for months circles abevethe horizon, and in favorable localities calls forth the pow- ers of vegetation in an iiicredil^ly short time, even AVashiiiLrtoii, (Irinnell Lainl, and Spitzbergen are able to boast of iloAvers. ^Nforton jilucked a crucifer at Cape Constitution (S0° 45' X. lat.), and, on the banks of ]Mary ]\Iinturii Kiver (78" 52'), Kane came across a flower-growth which, though drearily Arctic in its type, V as r
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