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 | | district, several chains pierced by the Oka river, the Kitoi Alps in East Sayan, the mountains of the upper Lena and Kirenga, the Olekminsk gold-mine district, and the unnamed mountains which project north-east between the Lena,and the Aldan. |
 | | Gold is found on the high plateau in the basin of the upper Vitim, on the lower plateau in the Nerchinsk district, and on the upper tributaries of the Amur (especially the Oldoi) and the Zeya, in the north-east continuation of the Nerchinsk Mountains. |
 | | The three rivers of north-eastern Siberia—the Yana, lndigirka and Kolyma—have the same general character, their courses being, however, much shorter, as in these latitudes the plateau approachesnearer to the Arctic Ocean. |
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