POPULAR LECTURES AND ADDRESSES. 



from their appearance and position, concluded that 

 they must have inxnvn in the country. 1 



" Trees under similar conditions were also found 

 by Lieutenant Pirn on Prince Patrick's Island, 

 and by Captain Parry on Melville Island, all 

 considerably above the present sea-level and at a 

 distance from the shore. On the coast of New 

 Siberia, Lieutenant Anjou found a cliff of clay 

 containing stems of trees still capable of bcini; 

 used for fuel. 



' This remarkable phenomenon,' says Captain 

 ( Xsbonie, 'opens a vast field for conjecture, and 

 the imagination becomes bewildered in trying to 

 realise that period of the world's history when the 

 absence of ice and a milder climate allowed forest 

 trees to j.;ro\v in a region where now the ground- 

 willow and the dwarf-birch have to strui^lc for 

 existence.' 



" AM who have seen those trees in 



arctic regions agree in thinking that they ^rcw /// 



situ. And Professor I lau^hton, in his excellent 



nut of the arctic archipelago appended to 



V <'_/ 'the Resolute, pa^c 294. 



