. 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 us wild they were very fictitious wasshown by the accident of the tigersmask falling off and Ievealing theliead of an astonished man. The thermometer was belowthe freezing-point, and as the the-atre was in the open air, I was veryTHE TIGER. gkd tliat til6 performauce was short. From Kiachta I returned toYerckne Udinsk, and then proceeded to Irkutsk by way of Lake lake is said to be the largest body of fresh water in
. 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 us wild they were very fictitious wasshown by the accident of the tigersmask falling off and Ievealing theliead of an astonished man. The thermometer was belowthe freezing-point, and as the the-atre was in the open air, I was veryTHE TIGER. gkd tliat til6 performauce was short. From Kiachta I returned toYerckne Udinsk, and then proceeded to Irkutsk by way of Lake lake is said to be the largest body of fresh water in Asia. It is fonrhundred miles long by about fifty broad, and is fourteen hundred feetabove the level of the sea. The cpiantity of water flowing into it is saidto be ten times as much as passes from it by its outlet, the Angara becomes of the other nine-tenths is a mystery that has puzzled manyscientific men; none of them have been able to establish a theory whichthe others have not completely upset. I crossed the lake in a steamboat, and during the voyage listened ea-gerly to the description of the winter passage which is made on the A WONDERFUL RIDE. 357 I will give it as neftrly as I can remember in the words of my informant,a gentleman who filled the position of Superintendent of Public Instruc-tion in Eastern Siberia: The lake does not freeze over until quite late in the autumn,and when it does the whole surface is congealed in a single night. Ina few days the ice is from three to six feet thick, and perfectly trans-
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