THE GREAT SIBERIAN RAILWAY. 



and an interesting afternoon at a celebrated monastery 

 a little distance from the town, to mention but two 

 of the many institutions of which it can boast. But 

 were I to do so this volume, already sufficiently swollen, 

 would become expanded to an altogether unwarrantable 

 size, and I have perhaps said enough to show that 

 the large cities of Siberia have been built and fostered 

 with a due sense of the responsible position which it 

 will undoubtedly be their lot to occupy some day. 



