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he found here everywhere remains of old “Yukagir dwellings ” ; 
the island had thus once been inhabited. After Sannikov had 
fetched Chenitzyn from Faddejev Island, where he had passed 
the summer in great want of provisions, and ordered him, who 
was probably a greater adept at the pen, to draw up a report of 
his own interesting researches, he commenced his return journey 
on the 11^; and arrived at Ustjansk on the gth November. 
It may be said that through Hedenstrom’s and Sannikov’s 
exceedingly remarkable Polar journeys, the titles have been 
written of many important chapters in the history of the 
former and recent condition of our globe. But the inquirer 
has hitherto waited in vain for these chapters being completed 
through new researches carried out with improved appliances- 
For since then the New Siberian Islands have not been visited 
by any scientific expedition. Only in 1823 Anjou, lieutenant 
in the Kussian Navy, with the surgeon FlGUElN, and the mate 
Ilgin, made a new attempt to penetrate over the ice to the 
supposed lands in the north and north-east, but without success. 
Similar attempts were made at the same time from the Siberian 
mainland by another Bussian naval officer, Ferdinand von 
Wrangel, accompanied by Dr. Kuber, midshipman Matiuschkin, 
and mate KosMiN. They too were unsuccessful in penetrating 
over the ice far from the coast. Wrangel returned fully convinced 
that all the accounts which were current in Siberia of the land 
he wished to visit, and which now bears the name of Wrangel 
Land, were based on legends, mistake, and intentional untruths. 
But Anjou and Wrangel did an important service to Polar 
earthy strata of Siberia, having their origin all along from the Jurassic 
age till now. It appears as if Siberia, during the whole of this immense 
period of time, has not been subjected to any great changes in a purely 
geographical respect, whereas in Europe there have been innumerable 
alternations of sea and land, and alps have been formed and disappeared. 
The Siberians call the tree-stems found on the tundra far from the sea 
and rivers Adam's wood^ to distinguish them from more recent sub-fossil 
trees, which they call Noah's wood. 
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