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across up here, as far as vegetation was concerned. There was 

 such a quantity of heather in it, that he could almost have imagined 

 himself at home in a mountain valley in Norway. That others had 

 also found the valley to their liking was evident from the numerous 

 tracks and traces of polar oxen; and it was the playground of 

 ptarmigan and hares in numbers. He brought back a hare with 

 him as a specimen. 



