Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1888-08-11
rAs CLIMATE OF SIBERIA

Not All = Rar-er Ar~ssc Waste sseauty
and t'r,.sms,"u Ut siberian FiowerA
1, ~ hardly necessary 70 say that country
wn,cb na> AL area of live aud a nalf million
square il,iIt, and nicn extends IN latitude
~ tar a. from the ~mitheru extremity ot
Greeniaimi To the island Of cuta must pr.
sent great diversities of climate. to.ogrspny
amt vegetation and cannot be every wher~ \
tarren arctic waste mere glance at maj
IS sufficient to show that considerable Jmri
OF western Siberia lies farther south thar
Nice. Venice or Milan, and that the souther,
boundary Of the Siberian pruvinte nt Sem
lres.hltlsk ~ nearer the equator than Naples
In a country which thus stretches from til.
latitude of Italy TO the latitude OF centra,
Greenland one would naturally expect I.
lind, and as a matter OF fact. one does find
many varieties OF climate and scenery Il.
some parts of the province of Nafutsk tn.
mean temperatureeof the month OF Januar,
is more than 50 deg1 oeiow zero Fahr
while IN the province Of Semilalatinsk tn.
mean temperature OF the month OF July II Z.
iegs at,ove. and such maximum Temperature.
rs rs and 100 degs III the shade are cUulpara
lively common.
On the Taimyr peninsula, east Of the Gull
Of Oh. the permanently frozen ground tina ".
inches. and supports but scanty vegetation,
# berry bushes and moss. while in the south
arm part OF western Siberia wasermelons and
'.autaio,lpes are profita Dle crop, tobacco II
grown upon thousands Of plantations. and
the peasants harvest annually more than 50.
M, ,UU bushels of grain. The fact which |
tesire especially to impress upon the mind Of
the reader is that Siberia is not everywhere
| inform and homogeneous The northern
| cart of the country differs from the southern
| ,art quite much az the Hudson Bay terr,
| 5ory differs from Kentucky. and It Is n.
| sreat mistake to attribute the cold anu
'Mrrenness OF the Lena delta to the whole oi
S,,erla It would be to attribute the ,,,ls'
,nt barrenuess Of King Wi liam Land 10 tn.
| Whole Ut North America
| TO the Traveller who crosases the Urals fo,
| ne first tii,,e.,n June nothing il more sur
,risilig than the fervent heat OF Siier,ai
| sunshine AMI the extraordinary beauty and
| ;,rotlision of Siberian flowers. Although W.
nad been partly prepared. by our voyage NJ
the Kama. tor the experience which awaited
| us on the other side OF the mountains, We
we're fairy astonished upon the threshold ol
| western Siberia by the scenery, the weather
md tile fora In the fertile. blossominp
country presented to Us as we rotis swift
eastward into the province OF Tobolsk, the,,
vas absolutely nothing even remotely to sng
gesl IN arctic region II we had been thnd
folded and transported to it suddenly in tn,
middle OF sunny afternoon, we could neve
nave guessed To what part of the world w
| naG been taken. The sky was as clear am
blue and the air as soft as the sky and air o
California. the trees were all in full leaf
b,rts we're singing over the f1owery meadow
and in the ciumps OF blrches by the roadside
there were drowsy hum OF bees and a fam
fragrance Ct flowers and verdure in the All
and the sunshine was as warm and bright q
that of June afternoon in the most favore,
part Of the temperate zone.-deorge kenna
in The Century