The Countries of the World: Indians of North America ; Arctic regions ; Canada ; Pacific CoastCassell, 1876 |
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... snow and ice at a very few feet above the shore . If this accumulation of snow continued to gather and gather above the snow - line , the result would be that the top of the mountain would get like a white umbrella , or like a monster snow ...
... snow and ice at a very few feet above the shore . If this accumulation of snow continued to gather and gather above the snow - line , the result would be that the top of the mountain would get like a white umbrella , or like a monster snow ...
Page 54
... snow is alternately melting during the day and freezing during the night . This is at the termination of the line of perpetual snow - at the snow - line in fact . All above this point is known as the néré , a Swiss provincial word ...
... snow is alternately melting during the day and freezing during the night . This is at the termination of the line of perpetual snow - at the snow - line in fact . All above this point is known as the néré , a Swiss provincial word ...
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... snow and ice - fields . When the whalers move away the Pond Bay natives settle down again to the ordinary routine of their hard struggle for existence , but it is said that the dissipation they indulge in during the few weeks the ...
... snow and ice - fields . When the whalers move away the Pond Bay natives settle down again to the ordinary routine of their hard struggle for existence , but it is said that the dissipation they indulge in during the few weeks the ...
Contents
THE ARCTIC REGIONS IN GENERAL | 17 |
SEA ICE GLACIERS AND ICEBERGS | 48 |
LIFE IN POLAR LANDS | 71 |
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