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grow in profuse abundance. From an area of several square 

 fathoms one can often gather a couple of quarts. There is no 

 Avood here — only bushes. 



In the neighbovirhood of North Cape, the wood, for the 

 present, does not go quite to the coast of the Polar Sea, but at 

 sheltered places, situated at a little distance from the beach, 

 birches,' three to four metres high, are already to be met with. 



-/uKoRNEiRiir 



NEW-WORLD POLAR DRESS^ 



Gieenlanders, after an old painting in the Ethnographical Museum, Copenhagen. "- 



' The birch which grows here is the sweet-scented birch (Betula 

 odorata, Bechst.), not the dwarf birch (Betula nana, L.), which is found 

 as far north as Ice Fjord in Spitzbergen (78'' 7' N. L.), though there it 

 only rises a few inches above ground. 



- Tlie original of this drawing, for which I am indebted to Councillor 

 of Justice H. Rink, of Copenhagen, was painted by a German painter at 

 Bergen, in 1654. The painting has the following inscription : — 



Wit ?ebcru Scl^ifffein cuff bem iD?eer 



£e grcnleinber fein ^ein unbt I;er 



35on 2:i)teven unbt ^ccjelen I;aben See 3re Txa^t 



Xa^ falte 2anb3 toon 2Binter nad;t. 



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