PART II. 

 RUSSIA EAST OF THE URAL MOUNTAINS. 



CHAPTER I. 

 THE COUNTRY AND THE PEOPLE. 



IMMEDIATELY to the north of the Government of Ufa 

 is the Government of Perm, in which is included a large 

 portion of the Ural mountains, and a considerable stretch 

 of country on their eastern slope, famous for its mines and < 

 mineral productions, which the proximity of forests 

 has enabled enterprising men to exploit with great benefit' 

 to themselves and to the empire. 



In the commencement of this volume we have in 

 imagination followed the course usually taken by travellers 

 from St. Petersburg to the Government of Ufa. Had We, 

 instead of leaving the Kama at the Bielaya river, con- 

 tinued the ascent of the former, our voyage would have 

 brought us to Perm, the capital of the Government. 



Barry, in his volume entitled Russia in 1870, writes : 



' From this place ' Nijni Novgorod, the seat of the famous 



fair, where, in the preceding intinerary, our travellers, 



ing the railway, embarked on the Volga 'a line of 



iners plies daily to Perm in Siberia, doing the distance 



pleasantly in a week. The boats are not lar ge, and their 



accommodation must not be compared with that of the 



palaces of the P. and O. Company, but they are 



k"[jt \"iy clean, and cannot bs called bad quarters for 



travellers. 



