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A SiBiRiAN or Lapland Year. 



June 



23. Snow melts. 

 July I. Snow gone. 



9. Fields quite green. 



17. Plants at full growth. 

 25. Plants in full blow. 



Auguit 



2. Fruits ripe. 

 10. Plants filed their feeds. 



18. Snow. 



F'rom this time to June 23, fnow and ice ; 

 fo that by this account, plants, from 

 the coming out of the ground to the 

 ripening of their feeds, take bur a 

 month. And the fpring, fummer and 

 autumn, are crouded into the fpace of 

 c,6 days. This accouiit is taken from 

 a treatife publifned in the Amsn. 

 Academ. voL iv. and agrees with one 

 i have feen quoted out of Gmelin, whp 

 was in Sibiria many years. 



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