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LJACHOFFS ISLAND. 
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my intention of landing. The course was shaped southwards 
towards the sound, of so bad repute in the history of the 
Siberian Polar Sea, which separates Ljachoff’s Island from the 
mainland. 
IDOTHEA SABINEI, KROYER. 
From the sea off the mouth of the Lena, 
(Natural size.) 
So far as we could judge at a distance from the appearance 
of the rocks, Stolbovoj consisted of stratified rocks, Ljachoff’s 
Island, on the contrary, like the mainland opposite, of high 
hills, much shattered, probably formed of Plutonic stone-masses. 
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