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•THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. 
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Peninsula, especially its south-eastern portion, form the only 
exception to this rule. Several small fjords here cut into 
the coasts, which consist of stratified granitic rocks, and in the 
offing two large and several small rocky islands form an archi¬ 
pelago, separated from the mainland by the deep Senjavin 
Sound. The wish to give our naturalists an opportunity of 
once more prosecuting their examination of the natural history 
DIAGRAM, 
Showing the Temperature and Depth of the water at Behring’s Straits between Port Clarence 
and Senjavin Sound. 
By G. Bove. 
- Temperature at the surface. 
- ,, at a depth of SO metres. 
- ,, at the bottom. 
0 
p 
50 100 150 200 
I _ I _ I _ I 
Depth in metres. 
of the Chukch Peninsula, and the desire to study one of the 
few parts of the Siberian coast which in all probability were 
formerly covered with inland ice, led me to choose this place 
for the second anchorage of the Vega on the Asiatic side south 
of Behring s Straits. The Vega accordingly anchored here on 
the forenoon of the 28th July, but not, as was at first in¬ 
tended, in Glasenapp Harbour, because it was still occupied by 
