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Unauthenticated | Downloaded 09/26/21 08:42 AM UTC 86 MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW. FEBRUARY,1915 b the narrative of Wran el’s travels coinpiled Noch muss icli hier eine Notiz iiber die Sastnigi machen, die erha- familiar beiicn Rippeu oder Wellen. die sich mif dem Schnee der Tundra oder from the 9atter’s journals and pub7 ishecl by En,qelhardt des Jeiiissei hei Stiirmen bilden und von den Bewolinern ziir Orienti- in 1839. Bn Eiiglisli triinslation (by Mrs. Sabine,, of riing benut.zt werden, indem die Riditung der Sastnigi genau mit der Engelhardt’s book (notable for the fact that ueither the Richtung des letzt.vor,rherg.eg:mgeneiist5rlierIi Windes iibereinstimni t. conipiler’s nor the translator’s iianie appears on the Der ntJrdiSChe Bc!ilitt,enfiilirer fiihlt mit deni Piiss. wenn er wegen Schnees, Nebels ocler Dunkelheit keine Fernsiclit hat, die Richtnng title- age) appeared in 1S40, and in it the Gcrinan spell- der Sastriiga heraus, und weiss d~in,in welcheni Wiiikel ziir Smtniga ing oP the above term was preserved. Wrangel’s descrip- er sein Gefiihrt lenken niiies, narhdcm er sich zii Anf:mg der Reise wohl tion uf sastrugi follows: uher die Birhtung der iiltern untl neiiern Sastrugi unterrichtet hat. Die iiltern erkennt er an ilirer grossern Hiirte und daran, dmihnen To enable 11s to fOlIcJ\v 118 straight a line as pos*ible. iw tried to fis der Ibpf fehlt. Die frische Sastruga bildet niimlich eincn 1 bis 4 our eyes on so~iiereni;irkdde piece of ice at a distant e: if there w:~ Blilfter Imgcn Rucken, der nndi den1 Winde zii oben wharf ist. mit none mch, we were giiicled IJY the wavelike stripcx ni’ FIIOW (sastriigi) einer vorapriiigeiiden Spitzc (der Kopf, der allmiihlich vom Winde which are formed, either on the plains on lancl or IJII the level ice of wider ahgetragen wird 1 und nach der eritgegengesetzten Seite (der the 86%. by any wind of long twitini1:anre. These ridges always intli- Schmaiiz) sich ahihcht. and verlireitcrt,. Iin Bleiiien kann man die cate the quarter froin wliich the prevniliiig winds IJ~OW. The inlinbi- Hast.lagi vort.refflicli :auf deni Pchnee der Newa, nnch eineni starkcn tants of the Tundrsd often travel to n settlement eeveral hiindred Win(l:>, beobacli ten. versts off with no other giiide throng11 these unvariccl wastes than thc mtrugi. They know hy experience at \\-lint angle they niiist crws The word zrbsfriip. has a number of meanings in Rus- the greater and the lemer n-iives of HIICIX- in order to arrive at their sinn. It is :ip >lied to rough splinters clue to planin destination, and they never foil. It often Iinppen~that the trcw prr- iiianent siwtniga has lieen olilitt.ratcd by nnother priitltccwl by tenipu- wood against t\ le grain: to tlie end of a stick tapere i rary winds, brit the traveler is iiot dcceired tlieidiy; liis prwticed wit,h n spoko-share or siiiiilar tool; to the overhanging eye detects the chaligc, he c~relull rcm.wc‘s the rrc~ntlydrifted 1)nnk of a stream, scoured briieath by the current; to mow, and corrects liiv coiirse ~>ythe Tower sastniga anc~ tlie angle n siii~llbay or inlet; nlso soiiietiines metaphorically to fornied by the tin). inmtd perturbnticm or unsiety. Whether it is actually It will be noticed that in the forcpoiiig passage :i iqqiliril in Russian to one of the snow ridges whic.11 are single snow ridge of the character nieiitionecl is referred k11ow11 collectively :w zastrirqi is iiot clear from the to as a smfmga, which is the German trunsliteratioii of clic thiaries acccssil)le to the i esent writer. Dal’s the Russian singular zastmga. The same singular occu~s Dic tionnry of the Modern Great k;lssian Language (3d in the following passage froin another work: cd., 1003) assigns this meaning only t,o tlie plural, which is t.lius defined : Zm!rcig; or :.d~trugi.Jagqed. wsvy ridges thrown up by water on a saiitly Imttmi; also, wiiid-swept snow drifts, wavy nt the top, steep and riinipltd on the wiiiclward side, mid gently sloping to leeward.

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