The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and AustraliaParbury, Allen, and Company, 1840 - Asia |
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... Kolyma , contains only a church and thirteen houses ; Verkhney - Kolymsk , the most southern of the three , but quite as cold , owing to its elevated position , contains , according to Cochrane , fifteen houses . Each house , on an ...
... Kolyma , contains only a church and thirteen houses ; Verkhney - Kolymsk , the most southern of the three , but quite as cold , owing to its elevated position , contains , according to Cochrane , fifteen houses . Each house , on an ...
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... Kolyma is usually frozen over so as to allow horses and sledges to cross it in perfect safety ; and a little nearer to the sea , one of its mouths , somewhat more shallow than the main stream , is frequently covered with strong ice as ...
... Kolyma is usually frozen over so as to allow horses and sledges to cross it in perfect safety ; and a little nearer to the sea , one of its mouths , somewhat more shallow than the main stream , is frequently covered with strong ice as ...
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... Kolyma lasts nine months , though the intense frosts , which cause the snow to emit a vapour , make the act of breathing painful , and drive even the wild rein - deer to crouch under a bush , —do not set in before the end of November ...
... Kolyma lasts nine months , though the intense frosts , which cause the snow to emit a vapour , make the act of breathing painful , and drive even the wild rein - deer to crouch under a bush , —do not set in before the end of November ...
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... Kolyma are then deprived of one of their favourite occupa tions , the gathering of the berries , a season of as much festivity in Siberia as the vintage in Italy . The abundance of animal life forms a singular contrast to the poverty of ...
... Kolyma are then deprived of one of their favourite occupa tions , the gathering of the berries , a season of as much festivity in Siberia as the vintage in Italy . The abundance of animal life forms a singular contrast to the poverty of ...
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... Kolyma than there are stars in heaven ; " but who the Omóki were , and what has now become of them , are questions to which none are able to return a satisfactory reply . Yet , that nume- rous tribes must , at no very remote age , have ...
... Kolyma than there are stars in heaven ; " but who the Omóki were , and what has now become of them , are questions to which none are able to return a satisfactory reply . Yet , that nume- rous tribes must , at no very remote age , have ...
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