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THE VOYAHE OF THE VEGA, 
[(^AP. 
The landing place was situated in lat. 72° 18', long. 68° 42'. The 
land was bounded here by a low beach, from which at a distance 
of one hundred paces a steep bank rose to a height of from six 
to thirty metres. Beyond this bank there is an extensive, 
slightly undulating plain, covered with a vegetation which indeed 
was exceedingly monotonous, but much more luxuriant than 
PLACE OF SACRIFICE ON YALMAL. 
After a drawing by A. N. Lundstrdin. 
that of Vaygats Island or Novaya Zemlya. The uniformity of 
the vegetation is perhaps caused, in a considerable degree, by 
the uniform nature of the terrain. There is no solid rock here. 
The ground everywhere consists of sand and sandy clay, in which 
I could not find a stone so large as a bullet or even as a pea, 
though I searched for a distance of several kilometres along the 
