The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . nal of this drawing, for which I am indebted to Councillorof Justice H. Rink, of Copenhagen, was painted by a German painter atBergen, in 1654. The painting has the following inscription : — Wit ?ebcru Scl^ifffein cuff bem iD?eer £e grcnleinber fein ^ein unbt I;er 35on 2:i)teven unbt ^ccjelen I;aben See 3re Txa^t Xa^ falte 2anb3 toon 2Binter nad;t. D 2 3G THK VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. [chap. In former times, however, the outer archipelago itself wascovered with trees,
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . nal of this drawing, for which I am indebted to Councillorof Justice H. Rink, of Copenhagen, was painted by a German painter atBergen, in 1654. The painting has the following inscription : — Wit ?ebcru Scl^ifffein cuff bem iD?eer £e grcnleinber fein ^ein unbt I;er 35on 2:i)teven unbt ^ccjelen I;aben See 3re Txa^t Xa^ falte 2anb3 toon 2Binter nad;t. D 2 3G THK VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. [chap. In former times, however, the outer archipelago itself wascovered with trees, which is proved by the tree-stems, foundimbedded in the mosses on the outer islands on the coast ofFin mark, for instance, upon Renoe. In Siberia the limit oftrees runs to the beginning of the estuary delta, , to about72° N. As the latitude of North Cape is 71° 10, the woodin Siberia at several places, viz., along the great rivers, goesconsiderably farther north than in Europe. This depends partlyon the large quantity of warm water which these rivers, insummer, carry down from the south, partly on the transport of. LIMIT OF TREES IN NORWAY. At rrrestevandet, ou Tromsoen, after a seeds with the river water, and on the more favourable soil,which consists of a rich mould, yearly renewed by inundations,but in Norway again for the most part of rocks of granite andffneiss or of barren beds of sand. Besides, the limit of trees O .... ... has a quite 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
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