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the banks of Norton Sound well wooded, and the 

 trees rose always higher towards the interior of 

 the country (northwards). 



Mackenzie, farther east, in the interior of Ame- 

 rica, found the banks of the river to which he gave 

 his name, grown with high trees, as far as under 

 tiie 68th degree of north latitude, and these banks 

 appeared to him to be of ice. 



It seems to us, weighing all the circumstances, 

 that the American coast of Beering's Strait enjoys 

 a milder climate than the Asiatic. 



Let us be permitted to place by the side of this 

 melancholy portrait of these coasts, the picture of 

 European nature under the 70th degree of north 

 latitude (three degrees and a half further north- 

 ward than the most northern points touched by us.) 

 " The circular bay and the amphitheatre of Tal- 

 vig, as they suddenly burst upon us through the 

 narrow channel by which we passed, were highly 

 attractive. The church stood in the middle of the 

 green and animated slope, with the large house of 

 the clergyman above, and on the sides there were 

 two considerable gaards, with Quans and peasants 

 along the banks ; and picturesque rocks, with a 

 majestic foaming waterfall above. Add to all this, 

 the animation of summer ; the ships in the har- 

 bour, a Copenhagen and a Flensburg brig, w^ith a 

 Russian vessel from the coast of Archangel, and 

 Finns and Norwegians in continual motion back- 

 wards and forwards in the bay, going w'ith fresh 



