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well as the cattle nnd habitations. At 2,000 feet the only tree 

 is the birch j and its degraded form and indigent verdure attest 

 the inclemency of the climate j at the same time the greatest 

 number of wild animals disappear, and the lakes contain no 

 iish. At 800 feet below the same line of snow, the Laplander's 

 progress is stopped for want of moss for his rein-deer. Above 

 the line every thing presents the picture of agony and death. 

 The most robust lichens are only to be found at 1,000 and 

 2,000 feet, in the crevices of perpendicular rocks j and the 

 bird named emboriza nivalis, or snow-bird, is the only living 

 creature to be seen. The heat does not rise to one degree of 

 Reaumur, in the region, which is 5,000 feet above the sea. 



Mr. Fiddler, a captain in the Hudson's-bay service, has 

 communicated to Mr. Arrowsmith, the draught of the district 

 of country which lies between the rocky mountains and the 

 great ocean, and between the latitude 52 and 4(5. It contains 

 all the head waters of the Columbian River 5 of a lake, 

 called, by Mr. Fiddler, Lean's Lakej a river running into it, 

 called Arrowsmith's River j and a river of magnitude, called 

 Wedderburn's River. The whole tract is inhabited by tribes 

 of flat-head Indians, otherwise called Teres de Boules, and 

 one large extent is filled with wild horses. Mr. Arrowsmith 

 purposes to introduce these discoveries into his General Map of 

 North-American Discoveries. 



Mr. Arrowsmith has completed a new Map of Germany, in 

 six. sheets of double elephant, being the largest map of that em- 

 pire ever drawn and published in England. Like all the maps 

 of this eminent geographer, this new one is derived either 

 from original or unquestionable and superior sources. 



The same geographer has for some years been engaged on a 

 Map of England and Wales, in 18 sheets, which, when put 

 together, will be 10 feet by 12. Of this extraordinary map it 

 deserves to be noticed, that it will contain at least 1,000,000 

 names, which is the more remarkable because the places enu- 

 merated in the Population Return are only 15,741 j and 

 Capper's Topographical Dictionary does not contain ab6ve 

 20,000 places for the three kingdoms, although double the 

 number contained in Luckorabe's Gazetteer. 



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