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nutes longitude from the ifle of Fero, and 35 degrees 

 N. latitude, at the diftance of 5514 verfts from Mofcow, 

 and 1532 from Pekin. 



TheFonrefs. jf coniill:s of a fortrcfs and a fmall fuburb. The 

 fortrefs, which is built upon a gentle rife, is a fquare 

 enclofed with paliladoes, and ftrengthened with wooden 

 baftions at the feveral angles. There are three gates, 

 at which guards are conftantly ftationed : one of the 

 gates faces the North, a fecond the South towards the 

 Chinefe frontiers, and a third the Eaft clofe to the brook. 

 Kiachta. The principal public buildings in the fortrefs 

 are a wooden church, the governor's houfe, the cuftom 

 houfe, the magazine for provifions, and the guard-houfe. 

 It contains alfo a range of fliops and warehoufes, bar- 

 racks for the garrifon, and feveral houfes belonging to 

 the crown ; the latter are generally inhabited by the 

 principal merchants. Thefe buildings are moftiy of 

 W^ood. 



Suburb. The fuburb, which is furrounded with a wooden wall 

 covered at the top with chevaux de frize, contains no 

 more than an hundred and twenty houfes very irregu- 

 larly built ; it has the fame number of gates as the 

 fortrefs, which are alfo guarded. Without this fuburb, 

 •upon the high road leading to Selenginlk, ftand a few 

 houfes, and the magazine for rhubarb. 



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