. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across 4£ below the level of the water, and theother half thrown up to a considera-ble height above its former position. So much for this remarkablelake. From the western shore to Ir-kutsk (about forty miles) the roadfollows near the bank of the Angara,which is very swift. The river does^/f LK-t t^lO i not freeze until after the lake has been covered with ice, and for twoor three miles below the point whereit emerges from the lake it neverfreezes
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across 4£ below the level of the water, and theother half thrown up to a considera-ble height above its former position. So much for this remarkablelake. From the western shore to Ir-kutsk (about forty miles) the roadfollows near the bank of the Angara,which is very swift. The river does^/f LK-t t^lO i not freeze until after the lake has been covered with ice, and for twoor three miles below the point whereit emerges from the lake it neverfreezes ev^en in the severest There is a great rock in the streamI at this point which is regarded with5 superstition by the aboriginal inhab-§ itants. They perform religious cere- 1 monies when passing it, and formerlyJ it was a place of sacrifice. Hundreds,3 if not thousands, of men, women, and? children have been tossed from this 2 rock to be drowned in the swift cur-i, rent flowino- below It had been my original plan to^ reach Irkutsk on wheels, and remain there till the winter roads were form-ed, so that I could continue from thatcity
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