Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-10-17

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| wool,s s;ro, lam, in ,,,,. vary r.r. Io,oiIs
Of tho ,;s,,,,or;os have. Io, tn
world A letter from Professor Nord,nsk-
| ioId to DIR Oscar Dickson. the main contrib
utor toward the fitting-out of the expedi-
ton along the coast, has at last reached its
| d estimation, and is published in the London
| Standard. 1t was written on the 20th of
| February, 1879, in the ice north of Behring
Straits, when the Vega was held, locked in
| by the ice foes, for eight weary months We
| find an abstract of it in the New York Trf,-
5une. Professor Nordenskjold says he has
| discovered that the coast Of Siberia west of
| the Lenais vast plain, devodof trees. There
| are no great islands out to sea there to pre-
vent the wind from driving the ice down
toward the land; and there are vast dis
toncas vbare fa,, ,ix,.rs o,,rt,, into tho poI,r
Occan' ANU ny thcir warm CURRENT preserve
a space of open water along the shore. For
several hundred miles in the vi,;nitv of tho
T o,,a h.,,.,,-a. -, =. =,
i''"'' "o"e'ei' sio"' iiN'is P'ui lh'o tne
ocean, and large Islands lie oil the north
ward and there is almost no ice along
sborn Fast of tho EoIir, ,o,,.arJ
behrlhg o'rail' lhere are no great rivers,
and although the climate is milder and the
woodlands creen dovn almost Il, the saa tho
,-,I-,
frozen hoes crowd closer 10 'he shorc' ana IN
the Fall and Winter they are liable to bar
the way to shippinq The letter calls atten-
,;or - ro,,,,rI.,IIo -, ,s ;.I,,,,,, ~.
0A W u '"' N''i' Sup VI i'''''''''' '"'
New Siberian The ground there Is slrewn
with wonderful fossils. Whole hills are
covered with the homes of The mammoth
-,,;..- - -; L.. -. -
iiiino'c'oS' "oi'e'' "ii' o'S''''' "Ne'i' SneeP'
etc. The sea washes up ivory upon the
shores In this rroup is possii,lv to he found
,t, ,,,I,,,io IS i,,,ar,,,, ,.roI,ior,. ,,.;,I
'"' 'A VI NM '''A,t W."
sard 10 the 'efteDrates winch eNisted al the
time of mans first appearance upon earth.
Hovv came borses and sbeen in n rerion NOW
locked in the fetters of an eternal Winter
,,ninbabiteJ hv man NOT now sunnortinT
an;n,aI I;ro :, ~ for,,, ond aIn,os, ;n,noS
ShI ns ,,,a ~ '.'' ~
,InaIlo 70 so1ro the Cnost;ar, himself ard he
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. q, ac;ar,. 20 ,.nJ a I;,,bt 1rou,rlt StaaI ataap,
=, - " ;,ihi, ,i'"ro,I l,,,I"ra
=! " t'i''S' ''i''i'''' '''' Il '''''
''' a, Ca,o S,,.,,o,,,l,ofr tho va,,, ,,ossoi tho
S;5[r;o, SipI'oIaI,rnty
ap,,II ; arS;s,a,, ,,,d ,ra,,;J otian,rts 10
ra"nI, Pabr;,,, ST., So ,ho r;ror a,i. h,
= Ill. dao,5 ,ri,b liz whole cnnnan,- ~
CO., I.n'n h'a, On ~ s,,nr oiaJ shor -,
nn,,i,I;, ~ :. ',it ~ o' s T"r'IinIJ ,,,at H.
f,a, - ,.,'' ,a,i ionn, ,bat ,,.baIa coast
Th",. a'o,s, -, ,,,,arI,, M,
-, n, ,,,,r1rahorsiiIa San,o,c,
I'll IL. ',,,o. T. an,, E,,rHDna,,
I''i ~. IN, -, ~ 81 u N", +',l
III ,,,.. ii',,, 80 U
H.. 80 ~ go, - H. 600 Lard,.
"a. ;r,.;aI hanIH'',,a - frr ciaJ L., y,
- -, g a. II, rs ,,-,,,,,- -
rrasorr;,7sr a ra5 f,annai sbi-, a feyr hrass
Lnt,o,,. - .ha ,,iaaa IS -, f;I ~, a oai,sot
60, -, c,rI'io,, raI,,Ia o,d siIya- Gins tbo,.
;,,d o,;,.a 81 haaI,h,. 1;sa ,,so s,oTo a,I
-, ,,,'Ia,',o,.,. - - ,ho,,, a -, ~
rei;S1;on in Their cns,oms Their tents are
Ill f,,o a. ,r;,L;, IL o,hor Tho ch;i H.
ar, tn,al1I- rotaJ within The inner font and
a,l 80, e., 80, r,,,s;J r,,rn;n d.,
nm The frozen rrnund win the temnerotnr.
down below 20 ; The women wear moth
inc when within the tents excent a pirdIe
and the men have shaven heads A remark
oble Similarity was noticed between the i'm
nlrments dresses and customs of tbesc neo-
iJe and those of the Fsnm-
maux and North American Indians.
TLesa naonIa ,ra Tho Ts.hnlt
,chers Thonnb armed with Stone and hone
weapons. and though wild and itinersut