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Often appears with: voyages and seafaring · siberian coastal timber drift · ocean currents · iceland drift-wood · fossils and the record of past life
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Lyell argues that drift-wood from rivers and warmer sources is carried into far northern coasts, citing Iceland, Spitzbergen, and Siberia where ocean currents supply timber even where trees cannot grow.
has not begun, and, finding the channel of the river blocked up with ice, it overflows the banks, sweeping through forests of pines, and carrying away thousands of uprooted trees. *Drift-timber on coasts of Iceland, Spitzbergen, &c.*--The ancient forests of Iceland, observes Malte-Brun, have been improvidently exhausted; but, although the Icelander can obtain no timber from the land, he is supplied with it abundantl…