. The birds of Siberia; a record of a naturalist's visits to the valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei . nds of song-birds, and amidst the waving ofgreen leaves and the illumination of gay flowers of everyhue. This sudden change in the short space of a fortnightfrom midwinter to midsummer can scarcely, even bycourtesy, be called spring. It is a revolution of nature,and on a scale so imposing that the most prosaic ofobservers cannot witness it without feeling its at in a purely scientific point of view, the lessonit impresses upon the mind is exactly the opposite ofthat intended
. The birds of Siberia; a record of a naturalist's visits to the valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei . nds of song-birds, and amidst the waving ofgreen leaves and the illumination of gay flowers of everyhue. This sudden change in the short space of a fortnightfrom midwinter to midsummer can scarcely, even bycourtesy, be called spring. It is a revolution of nature,and on a scale so imposing that the most prosaic ofobservers cannot witness it without feeling its at in a purely scientific point of view, the lessonit impresses upon the mind is exactly the opposite ofthat intended to be conveyed by the old fable of thetraveller whose cloak the wind and the sun alternatelytry to steal from him. In these Arctic regions the sunseems to be almost powerless. The white snow seems 334 THE BREAK-UP OF THE ICE to be an invulnerable shield, against which the sun-dartsglance harmless, reflected back into the air. On thecontrary, the south wind seems all-powerful. In spite ofmist and cloud, the snow melts before it like butterupon hot toast, and winter tumbles down like a pack OSTIAK ANCHOR
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