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Title: Farthest north; being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship "Fram" 1893-96, and of a fifteen months' sleigh journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Nansen, Fridtjof, 1861-1930 Sverdrup, Otto Neumann, 1854-1930
Subjects: "Fram" Expedition. 1893-1896)
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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pear-ance.! All of these diatomous accumulations kept ata certain depth, about a yard below the surface of thewater; in some of the small lanes they appeared inlarge masses. At the same depth the above-named algaseemed especially to flourish, while parts of it rose up to * This dust, which is to be seen in summer on the upper surface ofalmost all polar ice of any age, is no doubt, for the most part, dust thathovers in the earths atmosphere. It probably descends with the fallingsnow, and gradually accumulates into a surface layer as the snow meltsduring the summer. Larger quantities of mud, however, are also oftento be found on the ice, which strongly resemble this dust in color, butare doubtless more directly connected with land, being formed on fioesthat have originally lain in close proximity to it. (Compare Wissensch.Ergebnissc von Dr. F. Naiisciis DurcJiqucntiig 7on Gronlaiid. Ergdnziaigs-Jtcft No. 105 zu Petcrmaniis Mitthcilungeu) 11 have not yet had time to examine them closely.
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A SUMMER EVENING. JULY 14, 1894 (From a photograph) THE SPRING AND SUMMER OF i8g4 507 the surface. It was evident that these accumulations ofdiatoms and alga remained floating exactly at the depthwhere the upper stratum of fresh water rests on the sea-

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