{54 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. 
