Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1887 — An Arctic Garden. [ARTICLE]

An Arctic Garden.

A curious geological phenomenon exists in the vicinity of Behring’s Strait. At Elephant Point, Kotzbue Sound, a ridge two miles wide and two hundred and fifty feet high seems to be a vast mass of ice, thinly covered with clay and vegetable mold. In this soil birches, alders, and berry - bearing plants grow luxuriantly, with the stratum of perpetual ice as the underlying rock within less than a foot from their roots,.