[9] So called from its circular form, and because the surface of the leaf is marked with curved lines.
[10] A more moderate estimate says 1300 persons.
[11] The Academy, November 4, 1876, p. 453.
[12] “Here let the billows stiffen and have rest.”—Coleridge.
[13] The scarcity of animal life in the remote North is shown by the small quantity of game shot by the sportsmen of the expedition after reaching winter quarters:—six musk-oxen, twenty hares, seventy geese, twenty-six ducks, ten ptarmigan, and three foxes.
Transcriber’s Notes:
1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected silently.
2. Where hyphenation is in doubt, it has been retained as in the original.
3. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have been retained as in the original.
4. Where appropriate, the original spelling has been retained.