PETCHORA 1878 



(continued) 



PABT II-. 



LIFE AND BIRD-COLLECTING AT UST ZY.LMA 



UST ZYLMA is a long straggling town about a verst in 

 length, containing a population of about two thousand 

 souls. It stands on the right bank of the Great Petchora, 

 near the first great bend in the river, and opposite the 

 mouth of the River Zylma, and is 300 versts from the town 

 of Pustozersk, at the mouth of the Petchora. 



Looking down upon the river from the low hills behind 

 the town, and upon the distant country covered with 

 forest, or along the river courses fringed with willows, at 

 this season it is sufficiently dreary-looking, but in 

 summer the view must be fine. The river is a verst and 

 a half (exactly a mile) wide, and at present is one great 

 sheet of snow-covered ice, with sundry sledge-roads 

 crossing at various points. Behind the town are low 

 forests of spruce, edged with brushwood, at the distance 



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