| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 12 | 350 | View more quotes about less">Less snow falls there generally than falls in most lower latitudes. |
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| 12 | 347 | To the north the tundra stretched forth to the horizon. |
| 12 | 348 | Many people do not understand the nature of the polar north. |
| 12 | 349 | For one thing, it is very dry. |
| 12 | 350 | Less snow falls there generally than falls in most lower latitudes. |
| 12 | 351 | Snow that does fall, of course, is less likely to melt. |
| 12 | 352 | Most of the land is tundra, a cool, generally level or slightly wavy, treeless plain. |
| 12 | 353 | In the summer this tundra, covered with mosses, shrubs, and lichens, because of the melted surface ice and the permafrost beneath, preventing complete drainage, is soft and spongy. |