. The Russian road to China . heGulf of Obi. From Omsk, following the Irtish up-stream, steamer navigation extends as far as Semi-palatinsk, in the Altai foothills. Smaller craft maygo nearly to the Chinese frontier. By the Tobol and Tura rivers, Tinmen, in theUral foothills, may be reached, four hundred andtwenty miles from Semipalatinsk. By ascendingthe Obi, a boat may go fourteen hundred andeighty miles east from Tinmen to Kuznetz on theTom; through a canal from an Obi confluent theYenesei River System may be entered, and from itby a short portage the Lena System. In all twenty-eight thousa

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. The Russian road to China . heGulf of Obi. From Omsk, following the Irtish up-stream, steamer navigation extends as far as Semi-palatinsk, in the Altai foothills. Smaller craft maygo nearly to the Chinese frontier. By the Tobol and Tura rivers, Tinmen, in theUral foothills, may be reached, four hundred andtwenty miles from Semipalatinsk. By ascendingthe Obi, a boat may go fourteen hundred andeighty miles east from Tinmen to Kuznetz on theTom; through a canal from an Obi confluent theYenesei River System may be entered, and from itby a short portage the Lena System. In all twenty-eight thousand miles are navigable by small craft,and seven thousand miles by steamer. Omsk isthe pulsing heart of this mighty interior waterwaysystem. The train leaves the station, which Is at a dis-tance from the town, and once more we are enroute. The eye rests gratefully upon the ribbon ofcultivated fields which follow the Irtish down. Butwe reenter the steppe, and again the desolation set- ^ilfia ^ • Ss^ *<** •^Jjw_^-: TIUMEN. TOMSK

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