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THE district occupied by the tribes with which this volume deals, is of vast extent, embracing almost the whole north-eastern corner of Siberia, and having a superficial area of over 2,000,000 square miles, with a seaboard to the Arctic Ocean of about 3000 versts, extending from west to east, the depth from north to south being half that amount.
Description of the Ethnographical Researches of V. A. Sierochevsky.
Published by the Imperial Geographical Society of Russia, and edited by Prof. N. E. Vesilofsky. Vol. i. pp. 720, with 168 sketches, portraits, and a map. (Dedicated to the memory of A. F. Middendorf).
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H., W. Description of the Ethnographical Researches of V. A. Sierochevsky. Nature 55, 97–98 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/055097a0
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