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[5] The landscape nowhere shows any verdure or cultivation; all is white and dazzling because of the snow and the ice which form in it. No bird, therefore, alights there nor does any animal pass, and all parts of the country are unvisited and inaccessible.1

1 Curtius 7.3.10-11, also, mentions burying the plants to protect them and the absence of animals and birds.

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