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mountain-wall towers up to the height of 1000 feet above
the water, in some places approaching the river, forming
picturesque “gates” or “pillars”, at others diverging from
it, and enclosing large river-basins with numerous islands.

chalk cliffs on the lena.

But if you ascend any of these apparent mountains, you
will find that they resolve themselves into a plateau of
undulating forest-clad country, through which the giant river
has cut its way. Only in two places has the Lena carved

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