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CHAP. III. 



Account of the Ruffian and Chinefe fettlements upon the 

 confines of Siberia — defcription of the Ruffian frontier 

 town Kiachta — of the Chinefe frontier town Maimatf- 

 chin — its buildings, pagodas^ ^c. 



T3 Y the laft mentioned treaty it was ffipulated, that 

 -■-^ the commerce between Ruffia and China ffiould be 

 tranfadled at the frontiers. Accordingly two fpots were 

 marked out for that purpofe upon the confines of Siberia, 

 where they border upon the Mongol defert ; one nearRum^nana^ 



Cluiiefe Scttle- 



the brook Kiachta, and the other at Zuruchaitu. The ■^'^"^ "P°n ^iic 



Brook 



defcription of the former of thefe places forms the fub- ^"'^^»- 

 je6t of this chapter. 



This fettlement confiils of a Ruffian and Chinefe 

 town, both iituated in a romantic valley, furrounded 

 by high, rocky, and for the moft part well-wooded, moun- 

 tains. This valley is interfed:ed by the brook Kiachta, 

 which riles in Siberia, and, after waffiing both the Ruffian 

 and Chinefe town, falls into the Bura, at a fmall diftance 

 from the frontiers. 



The Ruffian fettlement is called Kiachta from theS'-"':''""''f'''« 



Rullian Fion- 



abovementioned brook : it lies in 124 degrees 18 mi-KiLLT" 



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