The Countries of the World: Indians of North America ; Arctic regions ; Canada ; Pacific CoastCassell, 1876 |
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... coast of Greenland , and upon the west coast to about Holstensborg , where it exhausts itself . In Smith Sound the climate is sometimes 60 ° below zero , and in ex- ceptional years even more severe . Jakobshavn , at the bottom of Disco ...
... coast of Greenland , and upon the west coast to about Holstensborg , where it exhausts itself . In Smith Sound the climate is sometimes 60 ° below zero , and in ex- ceptional years even more severe . Jakobshavn , at the bottom of Disco ...
Page 68
... coast has risen , it is now again falling . On the coast of South Greenland houses are not only seen beneath the water , showing that it had fallen , but also further above the sea - level , where no Greenlander would now build them ...
... coast has risen , it is now again falling . On the coast of South Greenland houses are not only seen beneath the water , showing that it had fallen , but also further above the sea - level , where no Greenlander would now build them ...
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... coast , which is of still later geological date . At present it is only mined at Nanaimo , ninety miles from Victoria ; but as the whole of the east coast of Vancouver Island is underlaid by the strata more mines will in time be opened ...
... coast , which is of still later geological date . At present it is only mined at Nanaimo , ninety miles from Victoria ; but as the whole of the east coast of Vancouver Island is underlaid by the strata more mines will in time be opened ...
Contents
THE ARCTIC REGIONS IN GENERAL | 17 |
SEA ICE GLACIERS AND ICEBERGS | 48 |
LIFE IN POLAR LANDS | 71 |
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