ELEPHANT OF THE LENA. 
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a shrub was to be seen. After two days travelling, 
we arrived at the shores of the Frozen Ocean. 
The Tungusians called it Angardam, or Terra 
Firma. To reach the Mammoth, we were obliged 
to traverse a peninsula called Byschofskoy-Mys 
or Tamut. This peninsula, which stretches into 
a spacious gulf, is on the right of the mouth of 
the Lena, and extends, as I was informed, from 
south-east to north-west, for the length of eighty 
wersts, (about fifty-three miles.) The name is 
probably derived from two points like horns, 
which are at the northern end of the promontory. 
The point on the left, which the Russians more 
especially call Byschofskoy-Mys, on account of 
its greater extent, forms three large gulfs, where 
are some Jakutsk settlements ; the opposite point, 
called Manstai, on account of the great quantity 
of floating wood found on its shore, is of half the 
size ; the bank is lower, and this canton is com- 
pletely inhabited. The distance from one point 
to the other is reckoned at forty-five wersts, 
(thirty miles.) Hills form the more elevated 
part of the peninsula of Tamut. The rest is 
occupied by lakes, and all the low lands are 
marshy, &c. 
“ The peninsula of which we have just spoken, 
is so narrow in some places, that the sea is seen 
on both sides. The rein deer migrate every year 
regularly, abandoning these places to proceed by 
