[1] The Tringa canutus of ornithologists.
[2] Abies alba et nigra.
[3] Larix Canadensis.
[4] Pinus Banksiana.
[5] Abies Sibirica, Larix Sibirica.
[6] Tyndall, “Forms of Water,” p. 137.
[7] The name given to a plain of ice near Mont Blanc.
[8] Scoresby calculated that it would require 80,000 persons, labouring continuously from the creation of man to the present day, to count the number of organisms contained in two miles of the green water.
[9] So called from its circular form, and because the surface of the leaf is marked with curved lines.
[10] A more moderate estimate says 1300 persons.
[11] The Academy, November 4, 1876, p. 453.
[12] “Here let the billows stiffen and have rest.”—Coleridge.
[13] The scarcity of animal life in the remote North is shown by the small quantity of game shot by the sportsmen of the expedition after reaching winter quarters:—six musk-oxen, twenty hares, seventy geese, twenty-six ducks, ten ptarmigan, and three foxes.
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