The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . upright, though jDerhaps not rootfast.^ The flora and fauna ofthe island group besides are still completely unknown, and thefossils, among them ammonites with exc|uisite pearly lustre, ^ Hedenstrijin, loc. clt. p. 128. To find stranded driftwood in an upriglitposition is nothing uncommon. 812 THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. [cHAr. which Hedenstrom brought home from the rock strata onKotehioj Island, hold out inducement to further researches,which ought to yield the geolo
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . upright, though jDerhaps not rootfast.^ The flora and fauna ofthe island group besides are still completely unknown, and thefossils, among them ammonites with exc|uisite pearly lustre, ^ Hedenstrijin, loc. clt. p. 128. To find stranded driftwood in an upriglitposition is nothing uncommon. 812 THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. [cHAr. which Hedenstrom brought home from the rock strata onKotehioj Island, hold out inducement to further researches,which ought to yield the geologist valuable information as to theformer climate and the former distribution of land and sea onthe surface of the globe. The knowledge of the hydrographyof this region is besides an indispensable condition for judgingof tlie state of the ice in the sea which washes the north coastof Asia. Here lies the single available starting-point for theexploration of the yet altogether unknown sea farther to the north,and from hills on the two northernmost islands Hedenstromthougfht that across the sea to the north-west and north-east he. STOLBOVUJ ISLAND. After a drawing by O. Nordqnist. saw obscure outlines of new land, on which no man had yet sethis foot. All these circumstances confer on this group of islandsan uncommon interest in a scientific and geographical respect,and therefore no long time can elapse until a scientific ex-pedition be sent to these regions. Just for this reason I nowdesired, as a preparation for a future voyage, to wander abouthere for a coviple of days, partly on foot, partly by boat. The air was calm, but for the most part clouded, thetemperature as high as -1- 4°, the sea clear of ice, the salinity ofthe water 1 8 per cent, with a temperature of -F 2° to -f 3°. Atfirst we made rapid progress, but after having in the after-noon of the 28th August sighted the westernmost islands, IX.] LJACHOFFS ISLAND. ol3 Semenoffskoj and Stolbovoj, the sea became so shallow
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