Parts of the shell-like polar continent were disappearing beneath this new ocean.
It has been just enough to keep both polar caps frozen, to prevent water from reaching the fertile regions, and the cold has advanced enough to bar the growth and regeneration of plant life.
If we place a thin plate of steel in a uniform magnetic field, so that the lines of force of the field may be normal to the surface of the plate, we have a very flat magnet, the two faces of which are the two polar surfaces.
Yet each of them still constituted a flat magnet, of which the two faces are the polar surfaces; for on rebuilding the battery it gave again a perfectly regular magnet, though weaker than it was at first.
No polar night is too cold, no desert inferno is too hot for the man who pursues wild life for commercial purposes.
Now that the north pole has been safely discovered, and the south pole has become the storm-center of polar exploration, the harried musk-ox herds of the farthest north are having a rest.
During the night his head had come partially straight, but by way of precaution, I suppose, he had conceived the idea of burying it down to the chin in a huge seal-skin helmet I had given him against the inclemencies of the Polar Sea.
He himself came to dine with us, and to be present at the ceremony of crossing the polar circle.
To have killed a polar bear was a great thing, but to eat him would be a greater.
He had been left alone on an iceberg in the Polar seas, when the boat in which he was chasing a whale and all the other hands had been lost.
The fierce tyrant of the ice land himself, the polar bear, has a dingy yellow coat during the summer, but puts on furs as snowy as his own realms when once the summer sun has disappeared.
What is the polar and what the equatorial diameter of the earth?
Mr. GilderÂ’s experience as an arctic traveler, and his skill in the description of his journeys, have now given him a reputation as one of the highest authorities on polar expeditions.
But, sir, we are told that we are a commercial people, and that you cannot restrain a spirit of enterprise in our citizens which is limited only by the polar snows to the North and the icy mountains to the South.
This was the polar star--the test and criterion that governed in the delegation of powers by the States--powers not necessary to be exercised for the general good were retained by the several States.
Hence it results that the essential interests of the great component parts of our association ought to be the polar lights of all our statesmen--by them they should guide their course.
The compasses showed a slightly increasing deviation from their old coincidence with thepolar star, and no one doubted, any longer, that the fault was in the heavenly body.
It was only at night, indeed, that the variation could be observed by means of the polar star, and it was yet so slight that no one but a very experienced and quick-eyed mariner would be apt to note it.
The question then to be answered," said Allan, "is, where did Jan Jansen stay during the four or five years of his sojourn in the polar seas?
A polar bear is at no time an animal of a very sweet temper, but only just interrupt him at his dinner, and he will have revenge if he possibly can.
It is doubtful whether there is any animal in the world, that, for strength and ferocity combined can be compared, to the polar bear, the king of the sea of ice.
It would almost seem that the country around where the Snowbird lay was chosen as a winter residence par excellence for the great Polar bear.
He wrote on the aurora borealis, on the duties of a journalist, on the uses of a barometer, and on explorations in the Polar Sea.
Seen through the veil of Polar mist, a block of stone may take a mysterious form; and that lump of rock in the Polar waste, which the cod-fishers say is like a woman with her child, has long been known to them as the Golden Hag.
Far out in the Polar brine, in waters where her countrymen fish for cod, stands a lump of rock, which the crews regard as a Woman and her Child.
Husbands are leagues away; fishing in the Polar seas, cutting timber in the Kargopol forests, trapping fox and beaver in the Ural Mountains; leaving their wives alone for months.
Help is coming," flashed the wires from Charing Cross; and on the first day of July, two steamers left the Thames to assist in rescuing those ships and men from the Polar ice.
A desert dotted with cloisters," would be no untrue description of the country spreading southward from the Polar Sea to the Tartar Steppe.
On passing up the Dvina from the Polar Sea, your first experience shows that you are sailing from the West into the East.
On this green moss the reindeer feed, and on these camels of the Polar zone the wild men of the country live.
A brisk north wind arose, and blowing three days on without a pause, drove blocks and bergs of ice from the Polar Ocean down into the gut, forcing the squadrons to fall back, and closing up every means of escape into the open sea.
The northern and central parts of Europe, the vast countries which extend from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean and the Danube, were visited by a period of sudden and severe cold; the temperature of the polar regions seized them.
The benumbed and frozen mind of the Esquimaux, amidst the fat seals, blubber, and seas of oil in which it revels and swims, when anticipating the joys of the polar heaven, makes the tongue involuntarily speak in genuine Esquimauxan gibberish.
Now, it is known that the south polar regions are more covered with ice and snow than those of the north, and that the temperature there the year around is lower.
It follows that the southern hemisphere, and particularly the south polar regions are more or less completely sheltered the whole year around.
But again:--in polar climates nearly the sole food afforded man is the oil of abundant seals and whales.
The captain had not allowed for the polar current, which was setting, like a sluice, to the southward, between the Grand Bank and the land.
And the Elephants themselves, of several species, were spread over the northern hemisphere, even to the polar regions.
For the district in which the remains of Elephants and their associates are found, in almost incredible abundance, is that inhospitable coast of northern Asia which bounds the Polar Sea.
In the extreme cold of the polar regions and in the oppressive heat of the tropics, it is alike satisfactory.
The Polar bear suffers from the heat of the Temperate zone, and would not survive a week in the Torrid.
We know how sturdy and enduring the Anglo-Saxon is, how volatile yet tenacious is the Frenchman, how sober, solid and unwavering is the German, and how hardy and everlasting are the people who inhabit with the Polar bear.
Future America will be fitly symbolized by the Lion and the Polar Bear, surmounted by the American Eagle.
Beyond the extraordinary bird life, no signs of life appeared, except a small fox, and a Polar bear.
It is a feeble copy of our planetary system and its revolutions; also the periods of the changes of the solstice and equinox which bring us from day to day a new polar planet.
Besides, pray take notice of the shape of the whole, how it flattens at the poles, and turns round the sun in an awkward oblique manner, so as that the polar circles cannot possibly be cultivated.
It is well known that, at this period, a flight of philosophers were upon their return from the polar circle, where they had been making observations, for which nobody has hitherto been the wiser.
