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orderoidof Tegfiiliim; 

 B^ tfaou^ Cniitx, in Ins -'ffisttny of 

 1820 (p. 61), appHcnti^ describes tfe 

 inirmta' at kasi^ of 

 ^at '"BendeeriMGs'' of dl 

 Brown 8KJS tiutfc it does not vow aft all cu n * )lilnte flieirfBod.t 

 On the other hand, in other parts of the ISiordi Falv icgioaBi4 ^ 

 not in Gieailand, Obtain HaU de«x9ies CL rmmg^mmm » ^he 

 most in^ortsDt terre^zial vegetatiaB, " lor on it feed &e ker^ 

 " of Beradeer, vliich are the prey of Ae Wohcs, 

 " Edqaimaox."! It is onlj poegihlft to reeoacile sad 

 cies in evidenee hj s upf iuH in g Aat in eertain parts of ^eenbgad, 

 or the Arctic legioBs generaSj, *Beindeer-aosB*isab«ndiBt,s 

 coikBtitiites the wiHtar or oAer Ibod of &e Bebdeer; ^wUh 

 oAers the <*nioss * in qaestion is absent w sc»o^ or it does 

 form Ae find, or part of the find, of tiiat aainaL 



Theabandance in ^cenfagadof at loKt Bomb of tiie 

 that in otho" Arctic eoontries are, or have 

 sof^Ting the-wants <^naa or animah, and the possibiBtf of de- 

 Tei^nng the economical i^lications of lichee in a 

 whose resonrees are otherwise so Hniited, render it 

 lo make son^ reference to certain of the ns^ rfsewhere of the 

 more abnndant Arctic specie. 



In Altaic America the Tarioos UmtiiBemrim^ as "Tr^ de 

 roche," ha^e j^jed a Tczy proninent part in the historj of geo- 

 graphical exploration, more eqperially so in the reoord of tibe now 

 well-known land-joomej of Franklin, Bidiardscw, Hood, and 

 Back. When, in October 1821, Franklin and his 

 were poshing on fix* the Gt^permine BiTer in a 

 proacMng starration, under the joint infioence of cold and hu^er, 

 that intrepid explom- writes : — ^ Oar sofiering £rom eidd in a 

 " comfortless canras toit, in soch weather, with the teH^aatore 

 " at 20 degrees, and wiUioot fire, will easllj be imagined : it 



* He mlso desenbe Hares as lining paitly on it (^ 66). 



t See\mj ■" Oliserratioas on &eeiilaBd LicbeaB,* sab CZ. wmmfifmm, 

 A shoit paragra^ on the Ibod of die Gieenlaad Bdndev ^rffl be fumA ia 

 Dr. BrovnVpapCT * Oa die MaHmafian ¥!mia of (^^■laad," ia &e Fko- 

 ceedmgs <^ die ZookigKal Society (of Loadon) ftr 1868, Kd. xxm, p. 3»^ 

 (S« abore, p. 26.) 



^ Dr. Bro^m vriies me, ~ Hall's 'Bs^maaiix Laad' lefem, I svspect, 

 <* ^^oUjtothewestermshorKof Daris'StzaiL la Daaisk GtceBlaBd tbere 

 ** is seaiedy a poze aadre firiag;** 



§ "life^ditheEsqiiimaaxrtibelSaRaijdreof GaptaiaHaHofdie Whafiif 

 •' Barbae, * George Hoiit,' " 2 vols., Loadon, 1864. 



