154 THE FOREST LANDS OF NORTHERN RUSSIA. 



According to the opinion of Norwegian navigators, 

 Russian Lapland possesses many excellent ports, for 

 example, Tertik, the port of St. Catherine, and Kilden, 

 but none of these are colonised or occupied by inhabitants 

 living by the produce of the sea. The only town in 

 Russian Lapland, Kola, has been built on the banks of a 

 river, at about sixty kilometres from the ocean. It is not 

 surprising then that this bay is covered with a sheet of 

 unbreakable ice during many months of the year. 



In fine, the difference of the winter in Russian Lapland 

 and Norwegian Finmark is not the result, of physical 

 forces, but is attributable to differences in the habits of 

 the two frontier nations. 



