IX.] 



LJACHOFFS ISLAND. 



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walrus are not mentioned as occurring there, but " long small 

 screw-formed bones," by which are probably meant the tusks 

 of the narwhal.^ 



All was now clear of snow, with the exception of a few of 

 the deeper clefts between the mountains. No traces of glaciers 

 were visible, not even such small collections of ice as are to be 



IDOTHEA SABINEI, KROVER. 



From the sea off the mouth of the Lena 

 (Natural size.) 



found everywhere on Spitzbergen where the land rises a few 

 hundred feet above the surface of the sea. Nor, to judge by 



1 ^lartin Sauer, A ii account of a Geocjraphiral and Astronomical Expedit'w)i 

 to the Xorthern parts of Russia by Commodore Joseph Billings, London, 

 1802, p. 105, The walrus does not occur in the sea between the nioutli 

 of the Chatanga and Wrangel Laud, and large whales are never seen at 

 the New Siherian Islands, but during Hedenstiom's stay in these regions 

 three narwhals were enclosed in the ice near the shore at the mouth of tlie 

 Yaua (Otrijicki o Sihiri, p. 131). 



