. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Eof C 25 Miles. the Chudes," galleries excavated in the live rock, where have been collected numerous copper, but no bronze instruments, the old race of miners having perished before reaching the bronze age properly so called. Some of the natives are traditionally said to be acquainted with other old and very valuable mines ; but they have always refused to reveal them» through fear of being condemned to the miner's hard fate. A little north of Zlatoust, in the great mining region, the main range ramifies into three branches, spreading southwards like
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Eof C 25 Miles. the Chudes," galleries excavated in the live rock, where have been collected numerous copper, but no bronze instruments, the old race of miners having perished before reaching the bronze age properly so called. Some of the natives are traditionally said to be acquainted with other old and very valuable mines ; but they have always refused to reveal them» through fear of being condemned to the miner's hard fate. A little north of Zlatoust, in the great mining region, the main range ramifies into three branches, spreading southwards like a fan, with broad intervening valleys, where rise the Ural and its affluent the Sakmara. In some of its crests, such as the Yurma, Taganai, and Urenga, the western spur attains an elevation of 171
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