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the hyperborean countries, has a quite insignificant population. Its 35,000 inhabitants makes 

 a little more than one to the square geographical mile, the number of the Russian contingent 

 not exceeding 1.000, or 20 per cent of the total population. Half of the Russian people 

 are distributed through small towns, containing 11 per cent of the inhabitants of the country. 

 The native tribes consist of wandering Chukches, Koriaks, Kamchadals, Lamuts, and reindeer 

 Tunguz. Evidently, the whole Okhotsk-Kamchatka country, like the neighbouring Yakutsk region 

 of Eastern Siberia, is absolutely unadapted to premanent agricultural colonization and possesses 

 the very smallest capacity for settlement, which can only be enlarged by the development, 

 protection and regulation of the sea industries. 



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