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The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

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NOVAYA ZEMLYA. 363Government survey conducted by Ludlow in 1809 failed to detect anythingbeyond a little argentiferous galena <strong>and</strong> some traces of pyrites <strong>and</strong> copper.Glaciers descend at many points to the water's edge, <strong>and</strong> they seem to haveformerly projected beyond the coast-line, for stria <strong>and</strong> polished rocks have beendetected on the islets of Rogachov Bay, south of Cape Gusinoi. Although in amore southern latitude than Spitzbergen, the mean annual temperature of NovayaZemlya is under 23° Fahr. In the Maliye Karmakuli Creek (Sfoller Bay),72° 30' N. lat, the Norwegian Captain Bjerkan, who wintered here in 1876-7,found that the glass never rose above 9° Fahr. in December, falling to — 14° Fahr.on January 2nd. Yet the yearly temperature is here somewhat higher than inthe Kara Strait, 180 miles farther south or south-east. From observations madeat various times Wild has determined the mean temperature of the Matochkin

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