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liibiitaries of the Amour, and may in time occupy the Avhole space between the curve of 

 the Amonr and the Vanda tableland, which extends in the direction of the chord of the 

 arc formed by the Amour, between the mouth of the Bureya and the Khabarovka. In the 

 few and scantily populated towns of Amouria, among which Blagoveshchensk alone has 9,000 

 inhabitants, lives a little more than 11 per cent of its population, which clearly shews the 

 predominance in the country of the rural population and of rural industries. The development 

 of the latter is also demonstrated by the number of domestic animals in the country, although 

 this number is comparatively lower than in the neighbouring Transbaikalia. Thus, in the Amour 

 country there are 55 horses per 100 inhabitants (instead of 70), that is, a little more 

 than in Western Siberia. Horned cattle give 70 head (instead of 100), but still more than 

 in Western Siberia, and almost as many as in Eastern Siberia. Only the number of sheep 

 and goats is as yet insignificant, 30 head per 100 inhabitants, instead of 380 as in the 

 Transbaikal country. This is explained not merely by the recent settlement of the region but 

 by the absence of a cattle breeding population. , 



The Ussuri-Littoral Tract. 



The third type in the Amour-Littoral region is the Ussuri-Littoral tract, occupying the 

 whole southern portion of the Littoral Territory, lying on the right side of the Amour, between 

 its right tributary, the Ussuri, and the Sea of Japan. Including in the Ussuri country the island 

 of Sakhalin lying opposite it in the Sea of Japan, an expanse of 7,000 square geographical 

 miles is obtained. The greater part of this space is occupied by the right sides of the basins 

 of the Ussuri and of the lower part of the course of the Amour from its confluence with 

 the Ussuri. The long but low and very wooded range of Sikhete-Alin, stretching more or 

 less parallel to the coast line of the Japanese Sea, separates a narrow shore land from 

 the basin of the Ussuri, which has not sufficient room for the formation of any considerable 

 rivers, excepting the southern ])art of it turned directly to the south, which has both deeply 

 indented bays with fine harbours and a few tributaries of more importance than in the coast 

 zone, as for example the river Suifun. The whole of the extonsive hollow turned in the 

 south of the coast line of this part of the littoral of the Ussuri country has received the 

 name of the Bay of Peter the Great. Upon the peninsula, separating the Amour and Ussuri 

 bays penetrating deep into tlie Continent, somewhat to the south of 43" north latitude is situated 

 the town and port of Vladivostok, from which a railway is now being carried through the 

 Ussuri country to Khabarovka, situated at the junction t)f the Ussuri ami the Amour upon 

 the right bank of the lattei', the residence of the Governor-General of the three territories 

 constituting the whole of the Amour-Li tloia I region of Siberia. 



The height of the Sikhete-Alin is inconsiderable; in the case of the passes it amounts 

 to from 1,270 to 2,370 feet, and in that of the highest of the mountain peaks yet measured, 

 Mount Camel (Khuntami), it reaches 3,600 feet. In the crest of the Sikliet(^-Alin crystalline 

 rocks such as granit(! are laid bare, and in its northeni part which throws the lower course 

 of the Amour back from De Castri Bay to the north, volcanic rocks such as trachyte and 



