. The polar world [microform] : a popular description of man and nature in the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the globe . Arctic races; Zoology; Races arctiques; Zoologie. 'iSi^^P^^^>^. ^^k F\:init>i-Iiiitk;in I -c'liaikaii^â ^liu-liani:ii' ^' IK) more e(jualli!iL!,' irc(\'^ tlnil 10 (.'liinuti' 10 intt'i'ior cr, nor so â arly uij^'lit MiUivation lorbaect'us and Lilvt'^^, it ot nioi't' Uinbclli- \{'i' and tlic un horse- X.\Tri{.\L WKAI/ni ui- KAMTSCIIATKA. L'!U hack. The pasture grounds are so excellent, that the grass can goiierallv be cut thrice during the short sunnner, and thus a co
. The polar world [microform] : a popular description of man and nature in the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the globe . Arctic races; Zoology; Races arctiques; Zoologie. 'iSi^^P^^^>^. ^^k F\:init>i-Iiiitk;in I -c'liaikaii^â ^liu-liani:ii' ^' IK) more e(jualli!iL!,' irc(\'^ tlnil 10 (.'liinuti' 10 intt'i'ior cr, nor so â arly uij^'lit MiUivation lorbaect'us and Lilvt'^^, it ot nioi't' Uinbclli- \{'i' and tlic un horse- X.\Tri{.\L WKAI/ni ui- KAMTSCIIATKA. L'!U hack. The pasture grounds are so excellent, that the grass can goiierallv be cut thrice during the short sunnner, and thus a convnr'atively small extent of land affords the winter supply fo! all the cattle of a hamlet. Though the cold winds prevent the growth c»f trees along the coast, the more inland mountain slopes and val- leys arc clothed with woods richly stocked with sables and squirrels. No country in the world has a greater abundance of excel- lent tisheries. In spring the salmon ascend the rivers in such aniazing numbers, that on plunging a dart into the stream one is almost sure to strike a fish; and Steller affirms that the bears and dogs of Kamtschatka catch on the banks more fish with their paws and mouths, than man in other countries with all his cunning devices of not or angle. As the various birds of passage do not all wander at the sanie lime to the north, so also the various kinds of (ishes migrate, some sooner, otlunvs later, and consequently i)rofusion reigns (luring tlie whole of tlie summer. J'Jrniann was astonished at this incalculable abundance of the Kamtschatkan rivers, for in one of them, when the water was only six inches dee}»,he saw multitudes of Chaekos {Sla(joccp]iah(K) as long as his arm })artly stranded on tlie banks, partly still endeavouring to ascend the shallow stream. As the waters contain such an incredible multitude of fishes, we cannot wond.'r that the rocky coasts of the peninsula swarm with sea-fowl, whose breeding and roosting places are as densely p
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