. The birds of Siberia; a record of a naturalist's visits to the valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei . ttuch had arrivedat the town some hours before us, and we found comfort-able apartments in the house of a Russian peasant of thename of Boulegan, where we were visited by M. Znaminski,the Preestaff of Ust-Zylma, and drank a toast {the success A GREAT RIVER 35 of our visit to the Petchora) in a bottle of excellentCrimean champagne. The total course of this great river covers nearlylooo miles. It rises in the Urals, north of thegovernment of Perm, not far from the important town ofTcherdin, whi
. The birds of Siberia; a record of a naturalist's visits to the valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei . ttuch had arrivedat the town some hours before us, and we found comfort-able apartments in the house of a Russian peasant of thename of Boulegan, where we were visited by M. Znaminski,the Preestaff of Ust-Zylma, and drank a toast {the success A GREAT RIVER 35 of our visit to the Petchora) in a bottle of excellentCrimean champagne. The total course of this great river covers nearlylooo miles. It rises in the Urals, north of thegovernment of Perm, not far from the important town ofTcherdin, which lies upon the watershed of the Petchoraand the Kama. It drains nearly the whole of the north-western slope of the Ural Mountains, and flows almostdue north till its junction with the Ussa; here the riveris a mile wide, and the Ussa is the larger stream of thetwo. The Petchora at this point makes a bend west;but after receiving the waters of the Zylma, it resumesits northward course, which it continues till it falls intothe Arctic Ocean by a number of mouths opposite theislands of Novaya OLD RUSSIAN SILVER CROSS
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