June-October 1881, Cruise of the Corwin, Part II Image 195
the undermined edge of the tundra furnishes abundance of material for this mud as it is rolled down the face of the bluff, over and over in a coarse kind of cultivation. A large quantity a foot or two in thickness has accumulated on shelves and low slopes of the ice, and being drained from beneath a...
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| Summary: | the undermined edge of the tundra furnishes abundance of material for this mud as it is rolled down the face of the bluff, over and over in a coarse kind of cultivation. A large quantity a foot or two in thickness has accumulated on shelves and low slopes of the ice, and being drained from beneath and the moss killed as if it had been plowed, a growth of grass has taken possession of it and is flourishing beyond conception, 4 ft. high at least and very close, mixed with a few stalks of Artemisia and a yellow Comp[ositae.] The peat being exposed to the action of the air and to a temp. of about 40 to 50o sends out a strong dung-heap smell. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/3196/thumbnail.jpg |
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