John Ledyard's Journey Through Russia and Siberia, 1787-1788, Volume 2University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1964 - 698 pages |
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Page 179
... river , to which it gives name : This river is about the size of the Irtis where I crossed it ; and is the first river I have met with since leaving Petersburg which had a gravelly bottom or shore.15 Its appearance in other respects is ...
... river , to which it gives name : This river is about the size of the Irtis where I crossed it ; and is the first river I have met with since leaving Petersburg which had a gravelly bottom or shore.15 Its appearance in other respects is ...
Page 211
... River Lena . This in Summer is very well but in winter they cannot bring water from thence , it freezes in the Cisterns in which they bring it , so that in the winter they bring large Cakes of Ice to their Houses & file them up in their ...
... River Lena . This in Summer is very well but in winter they cannot bring water from thence , it freezes in the Cisterns in which they bring it , so that in the winter they bring large Cakes of Ice to their Houses & file them up in their ...
Page 266
... Rivers are very wide . At Yakutsk on the borders of the Lena the River reckoning from an old Bank West to the present high Eastern one has occupied a breadth of 15 English Miles , & this one change it is plain to be seen has been formed ...
... Rivers are very wide . At Yakutsk on the borders of the Lena the River reckoning from an old Bank West to the present high Eastern one has occupied a breadth of 15 English Miles , & this one change it is plain to be seen has been formed ...
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