THE CLIMATE OF MAOSOE. 
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luxuriant bushes of willow and alder. That in Siberia too, the 
large wood, some hundreds or thousands of years ago, went 
farther north than now, is shown by colossal tree-stumps found 
still standing in the tundra, nor is it necessary now to go far 
south of the extreme limit, before the * river banks are to be 
seen crowned with high, flourishing, luxuriant trees. 
The climate at Maosoe is not distinguished by any severe 
winter cold,^ but the air is moist and raw nearly all the year 
round. The region would however be very healthy, did not 
scurvy, especially in humid winters, attack the population, 
educated and uneducated, rich and poor, old and young. 
According to a statement made by a lady resident on the spot, 
very severe attacks of scurvy are cured without fail by preserved 
ohovata, Ledeb.)j but farther east in Kamschatka again of birch.—Th. 
von Middendorif, Reise in dem dussersten Norden wnd Osten Sibiidens, 
vol. iv. p. 582. 
1 An idea of the influence exerted by the immediate neighbourhood of a 
warm ocean-current in making the climate milder may be obtained from 
the following table of the mean temperatures of the difEerent months at 
1. Tromsoe (69° 30' N. L.); 2. Fruholm, near North Cape (71° 6' N. L.) ; 
3. Vardoe (70° 22' N. L.) ; 4. Enontekis and Karesnando, on the river 
Mnonio, in the interior of Lapland (68° 26' N. L.). 
January........... 
Tromsoe. 
.... - 4 - 2 ° 
Fruholm. 
-2 7° 
Vardoe. 
-6-0° 
Enontekis 
- 13 - 7 ° 
February . 
- 4-0 
-4-7 
-6-4 
- 17-1 
March . 
. - 3-8 
-3-2 
-5-1 
-11-4 
April . 
. - 0*1 
-0-9 
-1-7 
- 6-0 
May . 
. +3-2 
4-2-7 
4-1-8 
4- 0-9 
June . 
. -f 8-7 
4-7-5 
4-5-9 
4 8’0 
July . 
. +11-5 
-f9-3 
4-8-8 
4-11-6 
August . 
. 4-10-4 
4-9-9 
4-9-8 
4-12-0 
September 
. 4- 7-0 
4-5-8 
-f6-4 
4- 4-5 
October. 
. 4- 2-0 
42-5 
4-1-3 
- 4-0 
November. 
. - 1-7 
-1-1 
-2-1 
- 9-9 
December. 
. - 3-2 
-1-9 
-4-0 
-11 3 
The figures are taken from H. Mohn’s Norges Klima (reprinted from 
C. F. Schubeler’s Vmxtlivet i Norge, Christiania, 1879), and A. J. 
Angstrom, Om lufttemperaturen i EnonfeMs (Ofvers. af Vet. Akad, 
Forhandl, 1860). 
