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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ontinuance of winter. Western Europeis greatly modified by the Atlantic cur- 142 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. Comparisonswith WesternEurope; rigorsof Winter. rents and by otlier circumstances calcu-lated to make warm and humid tlie cli-mate. Russia feels notany of these forces, butlies under the dominion ofsuch elements as play over the greatland areas of the earth. With October,in the central and northern parts, andearly November, in the south and east,the season of frost returns with greatseverity. All the north-bound riversbecome congealed. They are converted The country is spread through the il-limitable areas with a sheet of white.The solitary forests are heaped withbanks of snow. Winter settles rigor-ously over all landscapes, and the mil-lions of inhabitants are forced to theshelter of their huts and villages. Bythis trial all animal life is hardened to adegree. It becomes strong, muscular,fibrous, heavy-boned, heated through-out with the rapid and continuous con-sumption of oxygen.
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FROZEN VOI.(^,A AXn SI.EDGK B< )AT.-Drawn by JVHeiiriet. into winding bands of glittering ice.For about one hundred and sixty-sevendays on the average this rigor contin-ues, and all travel and commerce are re-duced to the method of sledges. Thegreat Volga himself becomes a glare ofcr3\stal. Even the Don and the Dnieperfor a period averaging more than a hun-dred days in each year are solid ice.The Vistula, far off to the west, is frozeneach winter for nearly three months.The thermometer sinks lower andlower.Many times it ranges from twenty tothirty degrees below zero F. The coldis steady. At intervals great snows fall. With the latter part of April or thebeginning of May this rigor relaxesrather suddenlv, and the The spring flushflush of a warming and ^£:^:X^.all-pervading spring ^^^r.supervenes. The rivers melt. Thesnows subside. There is an epoch ofwater and slush on plain and hillslope;then a sudden burst of vegetation. Itis one of the hardships of the climatethat a returning ri

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