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ACCORDING to the Russian newspaper Sibir, the meteorological expedition to the mouth of the Lena has started on board large boats provided with all necessaries for building a house, and for successful wintering. The station will be erected on the Tumanskaya branch of the Lena, if the water is deep enough in this branch to allow the passage of the boats. It is hoped that, with the exception of the three summer months, the reports of the station will reach Yakutsk regularly. They will be sent, first, by M. Jurgens to Bulun; thence they will be forwarded to Nerkhoyansk, where they will be taken up by the post, which will run twice a month instead of once every four months as before. In the summer, the tundra being covered with water, messages can be sent only viâ the Lena; they will be taken by the merchants who leave Bulun for Yakutsk, as soon as the ice is melted, and reach Yakutsk in the end of July; another message can be sent with the returning fishermen, who reach Yakutsk in September.
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Geographical Notes . Nature 27, 43–44 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/027043b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/027043b0