Show DEVOID OF ANIMAL LIFE A ceaseless St russle between fire anc water in antarctica the antarctic is a continental land unique in the world writes general A W grealy in an interesting article on what may be pound at the south pole in the ladies home journal its desolate shores rarely approach able under most favorable conditions aro caved laved by an ocean the richest on the globe in its marine life animal and vegetable seals and whales in incredible numbers abound in its waters and countless sea birds cover with nests and eggs the few favored land spots which aro free from snow during the brief comfortless summer it is a continent where abounds no land animal life either mammals birda insects spiders or reptiles no mammal exists within miles of its borders it is also devoid of land vegetation except the lowest forms of cellular tissue lichens which have been found in two places only having neither ferns flowering plants shrubs nor trees here however nature displays her forces on a scale elsewhere unknown over the millions of square miles of this austral continent titanic struggle butchen but cen the opposing ancient elements of fire and water in vain the volcanoes pour forth streams of molten lava and upward pillars of fire the lava as a protecting covering of its lower strata of flowing glaciers the continental ico cap advances tain that in time when the processes of erosion have lowered the elevation of the volcanic craters its countless twy snowflakes will quench the apparently extinguishable nn fires that now shake from end to end the continent of an artica |