north-east passage

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To the Pacific, or round the north of Europe, has been divided into three parts, thus:


1. From Archangel to the river Lena;

2. from the Lena, round Tschukotskoi-ness to Kamtschatka; and

3. from Kamtschatka to Japan. They have been accomplished at various times, but not successively.

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