96 CONCLUSION. 



obtained by immense labour and rare efforts, are thereby in a 

 manner cast in the shade. Every one who interests himself for the 

 Arctic regions will, in Kane's work, find valuable contributions to 

 their description. Let me, among others, especially point out the 

 description of the mode of life of the inhabitants of those northern 

 regions ; the remarkable abundance of walruses, bears, and other 

 animal life ; the observations on the growth of plants, and on the 

 temperature, as well as those respecting the formations of ice on sea 

 and land, &c. &c. x 



1 See ' Proceedings R. G. S.,' vol. ii. pp. 195 and 359, also vol. Hi— Ed. 



