The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . in G3°, thence continually rise as far as the Lena, where Anjou found trees in71° N., and then fall again toward the Obi, where the forests do not even reachthe Arctic circle. From the Obi the tundri retreat farther and fartlier to thenorth, until finally, on the coasts of Norway, in latitude 70°, they terminatewith the land itself. Hence we see that the treeless zone of Europe, Asia, and America occupiesa space larger than the wliole of Ii^urope. Even the African Sahara, or thePa
The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . in G3°, thence continually rise as far as the Lena, where Anjou found trees in71° N., and then fall again toward the Obi, where the forests do not even reachthe Arctic circle. From the Obi the tundri retreat farther and fartlier to thenorth, until finally, on the coasts of Norway, in latitude 70°, they terminatewith the land itself. Hence we see that the treeless zone of Europe, Asia, and America occupiesa space larger than the wliole of Ii^urope. Even the African Sahara, or thePampas of South America, are inferior in extent to the Siberian tundri. Butthe possession of a few hundred square miles of fruitful territory on the south-western frontiers of his vast empire would be of greater value to the Czar thanthat of those boundless wastes, which are tenanted only by a few wretchedpastoral tribes, or some equally wretched fishermen. The Arctic forest-regions are of a still greater extent than the vast treelessj)lains which they encircle. When we consider that they form an almost con-. COAST OF NOKWAY. THE ARCTIC LANDS. 23
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