Side Lights On Siberia Some Account of the Great Siberian Railroad the Prisons
Side Lights On Siberia Some Account of the Great Siberian Railroad the Prisons
James Young Simpson
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We also saw wild duck and gulls, and from one swampy spot some curlews rose to give vent to their mournful wail. Where the water washed the bank closely with any depth a geological section results when the river falls, showing from the deck of the steamer about 6 feet of lenticular strata of brown peaty soil, on which were growing some hardy spruce, and it in turn rested on a clayey basis of lighter colour in which also the layers were very distinct. What timber fringed the banks of the Irtish ...has been al- 112 TRAVKI. IX SIIilOltlA. most all telled, ;uul wlu'U we take in wood, we no longer, as it were, lielj) ourselves at deserted piles, over each of which tloats the riatj, - of the steamboat company that owns them. ¥ov any industry is made an excuse to erect log-houses, where the wood-cutters live ; and while the lading pro- gresses, women row over from the other side in their Taki)ig in wood, peculiar boats with provisions for sale. The cutting down of the forests in Eussia has been attended with lamentable results.
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