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THE TUNDRA, 
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coffee. Here were found for the last time during our journey 
up the river actual marine animals: Appendicularia, Clio, 
medusae, large beroids, &c. Large bushy plants were still com¬ 
pletely wanting, but the vegetable world already began to 
assume a stamp differing from the Arctic Ocean flora proper. A 
short distance south of Yefremov Kamen begins the veritable 
tundra, a woodless plain, interrupted by no mountain heights, 
with small lakes scattered over it, and narrow valleys crossing 
RIVER VIEW ON THE YENISEJ. 
(From a drawing by A. N. Lundstriin).) 
it, which often make an excursion on the apparently level plain 
exceedingly tiresome. 
As is the case with all the other Siberian rivers running from 
south to north,^ the western strand of the Yenisej, wherever it 
1 It is the general rule that where rivers flow through loose, earthy 
strata in a direction deviating considerably from that of the parallels of 
latitude, the right bank, when one stands facing the mouth of the river, is 
