Alpine plants are not met with in Finland proper, but are represented by from 32 to 64 species in the Kola peninsula.
Eruptive rocks of Palaeozoic age are met with in the Kola peninsula (nepheline-syenites) and at Kuusamo (syenite).
On one of these, Kola Bay, the Russian government founded in 1895 the naval harbour of Alexandrovsk.
The Kola peninsula is, however, diversified by hills exceeding 3000 ft.
The government is divided into nine districts, the chief towns of which are--Alexandrovsk orKola (pop.
A new military harbour, Alexandrovsk or Port Catherine, has been made on Catherine (Ekaterininsk) Bay, on the Murman coast of the Kola peninsula.
Amongst these is the Kola nut, which is everywhere regularly employed in West Africa.
This kola is one of the very strongest nerve tonics; under its influence men can endure severe physical and mental strain.
Stephen Burrough thus found in June 1556 no less than thirty smacks in the Kola fjord, which had come sailing down the river, on their way to fishing- and sealing-grounds to the east.
It should also be remembered that the Kola peninsula as far as the White Sea itself was reckoned a tributary country of Norway (cf.
This may have been on the south side of the Kola peninsula by the river Varzuga, already mentioned, or by the river Umba (see the map, vol.
As provisions for my journey, my pockets contained a pound of chocolate, a box of kola pastilles, some meat lozenges and some lumps of sugar.
Until then I had to content myself with two tablets of chocolate, ten meat lozenges and a few kola pastilles each day.
The kolais eaten to still the pangs of hunger, and because an appetite for it is easily acquired.
On this principle the Bengali name for the pied crested cuckoo is Kola bulbul.
Sometimes a number of them associate for the purpose of deep sea fishing, in which case they usually start out on foot for Kem on the shores of the White Sea or for the far away Kola on the Murmansk Coast.
They were accordingly put into position along the Kola Railroad.
If both children should die, the mother must have two wooden images, and regard them as her living children; she worships them every morning by splitting kola nuts and throwing down a few drops of palm-oil before them.
I quote in this connection the following from a West African newspaper: "After the ceremony an elderly man or woman who has been a twin is called upon to split the kola nuts, in order to find out whether the children will live or die.
In such cases they continue throwing the kola nut indefinitely until they obtain their wish; or, in rare cases of total failure, the subject of inquiry is reserved till a future time, when they hope the idol may speak more favorably.
Thus: if a kola nut is split into four parts in throwing it down, they say, "You Idol, please foretell if the children will live long or die.
Most of them appear to prefer a lime to an orange, a plantain to a banana, or a kola nut to a sweet mango, but in captivity they acquire a taste for sweet foods of all kinds.
The most common article of cultivation is, however, the kolanut (Sterculia acuminata), the favourite substitute in West Africa for the betel nut.
Kola contains a very small percentage each of caffein and theobromin.
It also demanded its sacrifice, Sir Hugh Willoughby himself, with all the men in the vessels under his command, having perished while wintering on the Kola peninsula.
In the same narrative there is also a list of words with statements of prices and suitable goods for trade with the inhabitants of the Kola peninsula.
Its commander and whole crew perished, as has been already stated, of disease at Arzina on the coast of Kola in the beginning of 1554.
Oliver Brunel was born in Brussels, and in 1565 went in a Russian vessel from Kola to Kolmogor in order to learn the Russian language and make himself acquainted with the trade of the region.
And in return the men who brought these caravans to Kumasi received gold dust, and the highly prized kola nut.
The river may have been the Varzuga, although it is also possible that Ottar sailed farther west along the southern coast of the Kola peninsula, without this alteration of course appearing in Alfred's description.
As has been said, this sealing of the Finns must be regarded as a locally developed culture, which was not diffused farther east than Ter or the Kola peninsula.
The river which "went up into the land" was consequently on the Kola peninsula, and formed the boundary between the unsettled land of the Terfinnas and that of the Beormas with fixed habitation.
The land of the Terfinnas, which was uninhabited, is the whole Kola peninsula.
These kola nuts are brought into the interior from the coast belt by the Hausa traders.
I once tasted a kola nut, but found it exceedingly bitter and unpalatable.
Some days later, on the 30th September, Rijp himself arrived with a boat laden with provisions, to seek them out and take them to the Kola River, in which his ship was at anchor.
On the 17th September, Jan Rijp left the Kola River, and on the 1st November the Dutch crew arrived at Amsterdam.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kola" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dance; drug; hustle; nut; stimulant
