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THE POLAR WORLD. 



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and the principal thoroughfares which lead irom me 

 stream to the other. In the northern and eastern districts, as far as they are 

 occupied, the settlements are likewise almost entirely confined to the river- 

 banks ; and thus the greater part of the enormous forest-lands, and of the in- 

 terminable tundras, are either entirely uninhabited by man, or visited only by 

 the huntsman, the gold-digger, or the migratory savage. 



And yet Siberia has not been so niggardly treated by Nature as not to be 



