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THE ZOOLOGIST. 



thence to Moscow and Nishni Novgorod, he had from that point 

 to continue his journey for nearly 3000 miles hy sledge over a 

 country without roads until he reached Yenesaisk on the river 

 Yenesay, said to be the third largest in the world, whence he 

 had still 1000 miles to travel over the ice-hound water. By 

 the time he had reached the river Koorayika, at its junction 

 with the Yenesay, on April 23rd, he had come 3240 miles from 

 Nishni Novgorod, and, including stoppages, had been forty-six 

 days on the road, during which time he had employed for his 

 sledges about a thousand horses (changed every fifteen or twenty 

 miles), eighteen dogs, and forty reindeer, the total number of 

 stages being 229. 



On the two last stages only were 

 Reindeer employed, and this was found 

 C-CO to be the quickest mode of travelling, 

 the Reindeer, with their broad flat feet, 

 getting over the snow-clad surface at a great pace. 



Of the life led by the author in this uncivilized country, of 

 the people he met with, and the beasts and birds he pursued and 

 secured, a most interesting account is given. He found it very 

 difficult to get any accurate information about the dress and 

 habits of the various races inhabiting these parts, so numerous 

 are they, and so mixed together and with the Russians ; but he 

 gives some curious information on the subject. 



The history of animal and vegetable life on the Tundra is 

 very remarkable, and is graphically told by Mr. Seebohm in 



