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patches and even large drifts of snow here and there, 

 some of them lying close down by the shore. Next 

 morning I sighted the southernmost of the Kamenni 

 Islands. We took a tack in under it to see if there were 



OSTROVA KAMENNI (rOCKY ISLAND), OFF THE COAST 

 OF SIBERIA 



animals of any kind, but could catch sight of none. 

 The island rose evenly from the sea at all points, with 

 steep shores. They consisted for the most part of rock, 

 which was partly solid, partly broken up by the action of 

 the weather into heaps of stones. It appeared to be a 

 stratified rock, with strongly marked oblique strata. The 

 island was also covered with quantities of gravel, some- 

 times mixed with larger stones; the whole of the 

 northern point seemed to be a sand heap, with steep 

 sand-banks towards the shore. The most noticeable 

 feature of the island was its marked shore-lines. Near 

 the top there was a specially pronounced one, which was 

 like a sharp ledge on the west and north sides, and 

 stretched across the island like a dark band. Nearer the 

 beach were several other distinct ones. In form they all 



