. 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 iiowliere to great this part of the Urals is richin mineralh; there are extensivemines of iron, copper, and gold,those of iron being of the great-est, and the gold-mines of the leastimportance. A very large part of all theiron used in Russia comes fromthe Urals, and the same is the case with the copper. The copper-moneyof the Empire is coined at the Jloneta .Fabric, or mint, at Ekaterineburg,and from au immense foundery
. 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 iiowliere to great this part of the Urals is richin mineralh; there are extensivemines of iron, copper, and gold,those of iron being of the great-est, and the gold-mines of the leastimportance. A very large part of all theiron used in Russia comes fromthe Urals, and the same is the case with the copper. The copper-moneyof the Empire is coined at the Jloneta .Fabric, or mint, at Ekaterineburg,and from au immense foundery a few miles away comes the Russian sheet-iron which is so popular in America for the manufacture of parlor stovesand stove-pipe. The Urals contain the only mines where malachite is. WKSTERN SLOPE OF THE URAL MOUNTAINS. DOWN THE WESTERN SLOPE OF THE URALS. 399 found in quantities of any consequence, and when you look at a piece ofthis beautiful oxide of copper you can be almost absolutely certain that itcame from the neighborhood of Ekaterineburg. A mass of malachiteweighing more than four hundred tons was found there about the middleof the present century, the largest single piece ever discovered. At the boundary between European and Asiatic Russia there is astone monument with the word EUROPE on one side and ASIA onthe other. It is only seventeen hundred feet above the level of the sea,and was erected to commemorate the visit of the Emperor Alexander his Siberian dominions. I stepped from the sleigh and stood for afew moments with a foot in either continent, but though I made carefulobserv^ation I could not discover any difference between the soil, climate,productions, manners, customs, or social conditions of the Occident andOrient of the Old World. Down t
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