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of the /undra valleys there is an exceedingly rich vegeta- | the /undra itself is overgrown with an exceedingly Gc 
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tion, which already, only 100 kilometres south of Yefremo- carpet, consisting more of mosses than of grasses. - 
Kamen, forms actual thickets of flowering plants, while | ices of little height go as far north as Port Dickson (73° 
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Fic. 7.—River view on the Yennissi. 
30’ N.L.), the dwarf birch (Betu/a nana, L.) is met with, | mixed soil of the ¢wndva, we gathered ripe cloudberries. 
though only as a bush creeping along the ground, at Cape | Very luxuriant alders (4/naster fruticosus, LEDEB.) occur 
Schaitanskoj (72° 8’ N.L.); and here in 1875, on the ice- | already at Mesenkin (71° 28’ N.L.), and the Briochoy 
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8.—Mammoth Skeleton in the Imperial Museum of the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. 
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Islands (70° to 71° N.L.) are in several places covered ; bend which the river makes in 69? 4o’ N.L., a little north 
with rich and luxuriant thickets of bushes, But the limit | of Dudino. Here the hills are covered with a sort of 
of trees proper is considered to begin first at the great | wood consisting of half-withered, grey, moss-grown 
