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It is even stated that apple-trees bore fruit and that some wheat was raised. "Cattle-raising and fishing," says Pettersson, "appear to have procured a good living.... At present the whole stock of cattle in Greenland does not amount to 100 animals." * In those days the ice which borders all the east coast and much of the west seems to have been less troublesome than now.
Gustaf Björlin. Hj. Palmstierna. Fredrik Pettersson. Gust. Tamm. R. Törnebladh. Wilh. Walldén. Motion on the Union question in the Second Chamber of the Swedish Riksdag.
Since the days of the Norsemen the glaciers have increased in size, for the natives say that certain ruins are now buried beneath the ice, while elsewhere ruins can be seen which have been cut off from the rest of the country by advancing glacial tongues. * O. Pettersson, "Climatic Variations in Historic and Prehistoric Times."
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