. Side-lights on Siberia; some account of the great Siberian railroad, the prisons and exile system; . three flocks of cranes get up and fill theair with their hoarse cries, then slowly wing themselves awayto a safe distance. We also saw wild duck and gulls, andfrom one swampy spot some curlews rose to give vent totheir mournful wail. Where the water washed the bankclosely with any depth a geological section results when theriver falls, showing from the deck of the steamer about 6feet of lenticular strata of brown peaty soil, on which weregrowing some hardy spruce, and it in turn rested on a c
. Side-lights on Siberia; some account of the great Siberian railroad, the prisons and exile system; . three flocks of cranes get up and fill theair with their hoarse cries, then slowly wing themselves awayto a safe distance. We also saw wild duck and gulls, andfrom one swampy spot some curlews rose to give vent totheir mournful wail. Where the water washed the bankclosely with any depth a geological section results when theriver falls, showing from the deck of the steamer about 6feet of lenticular strata of brown peaty soil, on which weregrowing some hardy spruce, and it in turn rested on a clayeybasis of lighter colour in which also the layers were verydistinct. What timber fringed the banks of the Irtish has been al- 112 TRAVKI. IX SIIilOltlA. most all telled, ;uul wluU we take in wood, we no longer, asit were, lielj) ourselves at deserted piles, over each of whichtloats 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.
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