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CHAPTER VIII.
THE PROVINCE OF YAKUTSK.
Physical Characters of the Province—Intense Cold—Noises of the Arctic
Night—The Storms of Spring—Break-up of the Ice—Summer in the
Far North—An ever-frozen Soil—Products of the Province—Mammoth Ivory.
Before proceeding further north we may pause for a
moment for a glance at the province of Yakutsk and its
inhabitants.
According to the calculation of General Strelbitsky, the
area of the province of Yakutsk comprises in round figures
3,900,000 square kilometres, i.e. as much as the whole of
European Russia with the exception of Poland and Finland.
Orographically it may be naturally divided into two parts—
namely, the lowland west of the Lena, through which only
a few less important mountain ridges run, and the immense
region to the east of that river, traversed by the great
chain of the Jablonoff mountains, which in some places to
the south-east reach a height of nearly 7000 feet, giving to
this part of the province the character of a mountainous
region. Shut off by mountain-chains from the warmer
currents of air coming from the south and the south-east, and
exposed to the Arctic winds from the north, this immense
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