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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
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nterior, which is lofty, is unin-habitable, and all the villages are confined to thecoasts, which are lined with numerous islandsand deeply penetrated bv fiords. The Danishcolony extends to the Bay of Disco, in lat. 69°N. Cultivation is confined to tlie low shoresand valleys, where grassy meadows sometimesoccur with stunted shrubs and dwarfed birch,alder, and pine trees. Attempts to raise oats andbarley have failed, but potatoes and turnips at-tain the size of a pigeons egg, and cabbagesgrow very small. The radish is the only vege-table which grows unchecked. The inhabitants of Greenland (see Eskimos)are of the Eskimo race, more or less mixed withEuropean blood. The individuals of the mixedrace hardly differ as to language and habits fromthe ginuine Eskimo. Besides the natives, about250 Europeans usually reside in the country,jio to 40 of whom have married native women.1 he inhabitants are largelv dependent on hunt-mg and fishing. Whale blubber and seal oi GREENHOUSE FLOWERING PLANTS
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s § < o r: Ua. O « 51 o 55 a. E ^1 GREENLAND WHALE —GREENOUGH are used as fuel. The land animals are theEskimo dog. the reindeer, the polar bear, theArctic fox (blue and white), the ermine, theArctic hare, and the musk ox. Among the am-phibia the walrus and several species of seal arccommon. The seas abound in fish, the whaleand cod fisheries being of special importance.Seafowl are abundant in summer, and largelykilled. The chief mineral product is cryolite,but graphite and miocene lignitic coal are alsofound. Oil, eider down, furs, and cryolite areexported. For administrative purposes Green-land, or rather its coast, is divided into two in-spectorates of North and South Greenland.The residences of the inspectors are at DiscoIsland and Godhaab, but the most populous dis-trict is Julianehaab. Greenland was discovered by an Icelandernamed Gunnbjorn about 876 or 877, and wascolonized from Iceland about the end of theloth century. In the reign of Elizabeth Fro-bisher and Davis redi

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