72 THE FOREST LANDS OF NORTHERN RUSSIA. 



lands, stretching toward the sunrise upwards of two 

 thousand miles, are bound in icy chains for eight months 

 in the twelve. 



' In June, when the winter goes away suddenly, the 

 slopes of a few favoured valleys grow green with reindeer 

 moss; slight spects of verdure in a landscape which is 

 even then dark with rock and grey with rienne. On this 

 green moss the reindeer feed, and on these camels of the 

 Polar Zone, the wild men of the country live.' 



