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2 The Ural Mountains as far I saw them are low broad densely forested, mostly with P illegible stris, The Siberian road
runs through one contin ual? bed of fertile soil open grass or lightly covered with belts patches of birch trees 30 or 40
feet high. Magnificent pine larch forests about Tomsk Irkutsk . A wonderful lake is Baikal 400 miles long, 5000 feet deep
at South and though only 1500 ft above the sea, bounded by granite bluffs. Man illegible is a beautiful country - richly forested
mountains low hills alternating with charming - open fertile sunny valleys - broad level plains to southward The lands along
the Amour also fertile forested with oak ash, tilia, maple, pine, fir, spruce larch etc. Was three times at Vladivostok before
getting away on little Japanese steamer to illegible touching at five Corean ports on the way