CHAP. IV. 



THE PETCHORA. 



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It rises in the Urals, north of the government of Perm, not 

 far from the important town of Tcherdeen', which lies upon 

 the watershed of the Petchora and the Kah'ma. It drains 

 nearly the whole of the north-western slope of the Ural 

 Mountains, and flows almost due north, till its junction with 

 the Ussa; here the river is a mile wide, and the Ussa is 

 the larger stream of the two. The Petchora at this point 

 makes a bend west ; but after receiving the waters of the 

 Zylrna, it resumes its northward course, till it falls into the 

 Arctic Ocean by a number of mouths opposite the islands of 

 Nova Zembla. 



OLD RUSSIAN SILVER CROSS. 



