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... called on our charts , in rough salt slang , Sweet Nose ) and Kanin Cape , to- wards the Corridor ; a strait some thirty miles wide , leading down from the Polar Ocean into that vast irregular dent in the northern shore of Great Russia ...
... called on our charts , in rough salt slang , Sweet Nose ) and Kanin Cape , to- wards the Corridor ; a strait some thirty miles wide , leading down from the Polar Ocean into that vast irregular dent in the northern shore of Great Russia ...
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... waves wash in and out through the cliffs , and rend and carve them into wondrous shapes . A rock on the North Cape is called the Friar ; a group of islets near that cape is known as the Mother and her 12 FREE RUSSIA .
... waves wash in and out through the cliffs , and rend and carve them into wondrous shapes . A rock on the North Cape is called the Friar ; a group of islets near that cape is known as the Mother and her 12 FREE RUSSIA .
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... try to find it out . " A hundred pounds were lodged in the bank , a steamer was hired , and a channel , called the Maimax arm , was found to be deep enough for ships to pass . The work was done , the city opened 2 THE FROZEN SEA . 17.
... try to find it out . " A hundred pounds were lodged in the bank , a steamer was hired , and a channel , called the Maimax arm , was found to be deep enough for ships to pass . The work was done , the city opened 2 THE FROZEN SEA . 17.
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... called this sea a whited sepulchre . Even men of science , to whom wintry storms may be summed up in a line of figures - so many ships . in the pack , so many corpses on the beach - can find in the rec- ords of this frozen deep some ...
... called this sea a whited sepulchre . Even men of science , to whom wintry storms may be summed up in a line of figures - so many ships . in the pack , so many corpses on the beach - can find in the rec- ords of this frozen deep some ...
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... called St. Nicolas , after that sturdy priest , who is said to have smitten the heretic Arius on his cheek . No one knows where this Nicolas lived and died ; for it is clear from the Acta that he had no part in the Council of Nice . The ...
... called St. Nicolas , after that sturdy priest , who is said to have smitten the heretic Arius on his cheek . No one knows where this Nicolas lived and died ; for it is clear from the Acta that he had no part in the Council of Nice . The ...
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