PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH TKAXSLATION, VII 



Although this volume, like all the others ot this series, has been 

 prepared in extreme haste and under very great difficulties, rendering 

 it impossible to avoid errors, nevertheless, I trust the reader will 

 find pleasure and profit in examining this authentic and official 

 resume of the present and future interests of that enormous and 

 immensely rich country, Siberia, the Great East of the Russian 

 Empire, separated only by pacific waters from the Great West 

 of the United States, and which are destined in the near future to 

 be in intimate commercial relations with each other. 



J. M. Crawford. 

 St. Petersburg, August 15, 1893. 



