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0063 The heart of a continent : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000247
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d, again crossing over ridges
and feet in height, passing o
d through forests of pine, birch
struck the Tumen river, which
me stream, like the Sungari nea
only about a hundred yards wi
cover the rocks and boulders
e. No doubt it is fuller in the s
on be navigable, as it was at on

to be simply a garrison town
thousand troops, and the smal
ile else than to supply their wan
number of European articles whi
the Russian station close by. Cl
fruits, and many other luxuries wer
d at a very reasonable price. We bou
pineapples for a shilling.

ted in a plain at the foot of some lo
in the direction of the Russians—
—are some strong forts mounted w
was sufficiently astonished to see th
ng to which place they could have b
by water, and between Kirin and
comparatively low hills; but how
have managed to drag these enorm
upon range which separate Manc
all the morasses and forests we
me much. Mr. James found that t
antic sledges, and then brought t
on, when the ground and bog w
n hard. Yet even then they m
difficulty for in winter in this p
y; and these guns at Hurin