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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: The next day, the 20th of July, at about eight o'clock
in the morning, they caught the first glimpse of the Ural
Mountains in the east. This important chain which sep-
arates Russia from Siberia was still at a great distance, and
they could not hope to reach it until the end of the day.
The passage of the mountains must necessarily be performed
during the next night. The sky was cloudy all day, and the
temperature was therefore more bearable, but the weather
was very threatening.
It would perhaps have been more prudent not to have
ascended the mountains during the night, and Michael would
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