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proach sufficiently close to allow these animals to mi¬ 
grate between the two. 
“ The head is that of a male, well-marked, but old; 
the teeth deficient, but the horns very perfect. These 
last measure two feet three inches across from tip to 
tip, and are each one foot ten inches in length mea¬ 
sured to the medium line of the forehead, up to which 
they are continued in the characteristic boss or pro- 
THE ICE-BELT. 
tuberance. Our winter may be greatly cheered hy 
their beef, should they revisit this solitude. (18) 
“We have collected thus far no less than twenty- 
two species of flowering plants on the shores of this 
bay. Scanty as this starved flora may seem to the 
botanists of more favored zones, it was not without 
surprise and interest that I. recognised among its tho¬ 
roughly Arctic types many plants which had before 
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