. 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 POLICEMAN AT KKASNOVARSK. CHARACTER OF SIBERIAN FORESTS. 381 Hour after hour, and day after day, we rode over this monotonouscountry, the landscape, or rather snowscape, presenting very little to at-tract the eye. This feature of the country makes the Siberian journey adreary one, not unlike the journey from the Missouri River to the RockyMountains before the days of the transcontinental railvs^ay. Fred asked if this level part of Siberia w
. 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 POLICEMAN AT KKASNOVARSK. CHARACTER OF SIBERIAN FORESTS. 381 Hour after hour, and day after day, we rode over this monotonouscountry, the landscape, or rather snowscape, presenting very little to at-tract the eye. This feature of the country makes the Siberian journey adreary one, not unlike the journey from the Missouri River to the RockyMountains before the days of the transcontinental railvs^ay. Fred asked if this level part of Siberia was treeless like many portionsof our Western country. There is a vast amount of treeless land, said Mr. Hegeman, in re-sponse to the inquiry, but it is not all of that sort. There are manyforests of birch, pine, spruce, and larch. In some localities birch is the. HILLS NEAR A SIBERIAN RIVER. only wood for building purposes, in others larch, and in others pine orspruce. Other Siberian trees are willow, fir, poplar, elm, and maple. Cen-tral and Southern Siberia are well wooded, but the farther we go towardsthe north the fewer trees do we find. The plains bordering the ArcticOcean are treeless; the poplar disappears at 60° north latitude, the birchat 63°, and the pine and larch at 64°. I thought I had read about a species of cedar that grows over theplains to the far North, said the Doctor, and that it serves to makethat region habitable by furnishing fuel for the natives. I was about to mention the trailing cedar, said Mr. Hegeman. TheRussians call it liedrevnik, and some of the native tribes regard it as a spe-cial gift of Providence. It spreads on the ground like a vine, and has 382 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSL\N EMPIRE. needles and cones similar to those of the cedar; the trunks are gnarledand twisted, very difficult to cut or split, bu
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