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THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. 
[chap. VII. 
of the Lena would never have been obstraeted by ice, and I am 
convinced that this will happen year after year during the close 
of August, at least between the Yenisej and the Lena. For 
I believe that the place where ice-obstacles will perhaps be met 
with most frequently will not be the north point of Asia, but 
the region east of the entrance to the Kara Sea. 
