In the struggle for existence, which commenced on the opening out of the port of Archangel to British commerce, according to the inevitable law of the survival of the fittest, this Russian maritime enterprise languished and finally died, and thenceforth the inhabitants of the banks of Dvina received their silks 'and their tea Via the Thames instead of the Obb and the Yen-e-say'; and ever since the commercial world seems. To have taken it for granted that the Kara Sea was unnavigable, and that the Kara gates were closed by impenetrable bars of ice.