The Universal Geography Earth And Its Inhabitants volume 6 Asiatic Russia
The Universal Geography Earth And Its Inhabitants volume 6 Asiatic Russia
Elise Reclus
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The Khatanga Fiord and the Lena estuary the proportion of salt is only as 1 to 100, or about one-third of the noi-mal quantitj". On these shores the sea is so shallow that two-thirds of its volume are probably of flu-sdal origin. P. VciFic Seaboakd — Transbaikai, i. \. Along the shores of the Okhotsk and Bering Seas the slope is too short to allow of any large rivers. Here the ranges forming the water-parting run near the Pacific seaboard, and some head-streams of the Lena rise actuallj- within... GO miles of the Sea of Okhotsk. The only important river north of the Amiu" di-aining to CLnrATE. 305 the Pacific is the Anadir, which falls into the gnlf of like name between Bering- Strait and Kamchatka. But south of the Sea of Okhotsk the Amur, draining all the lacustrine basins which formerly covered the plateaux of Dauria and Mongolia, escapes through a gap in the coast range to the Pacific. Tlie middle course of this river, forming the frontier-line between Russia and China, is free of ice for six or seven months in the year.
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