. Travels of a naturalist in northern Europe, Norway, 1871, Archangel, 1872, Petchora, 1875 . our means of descending the Peza—scallop-shaped, withrough cabins amidships. As we passed on we found at the stations that thenatives turn out en masse to witness our arrival anddeparture. We are evidently approaching less beatentracks, as their increasing curiosity shows plainlyenough. 254 TRAVELS OF A NATURALIST At several points along the banks of the Mezen Eiver,but perhaps most prominently between Jerdskaia andPogorelskaia, are singular red or dark purple cHffs ofwhat appears to me to be marl, cr

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. Travels of a naturalist in northern Europe, Norway, 1871, Archangel, 1872, Petchora, 1875 . our means of descending the Peza—scallop-shaped, withrough cabins amidships. As we passed on we found at the stations that thenatives turn out en masse to witness our arrival anddeparture. We are evidently approaching less beatentracks, as their increasing curiosity shows plainlyenough. 254 TRAVELS OF A NATURALIST At several points along the banks of the Mezen Eiver,but perhaps most prominently between Jerdskaia andPogorelskaia, are singular red or dark purple cHffs ofwhat appears to me to be marl, crumbHng into earthin places and hardening into distinct rock-strata in cliffs are about a hundred feet high, more or less,and are cut by gullies at regular intervals down to the. iiiilliiil

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