66 FORESTRY IN EASTERN RUSSIA. 



The Government of Viatka is conterminous with the 

 Government of Vologda on the north, and is bounded by 

 that of Perm on the east, which is also conterminous with 

 the Government of Vologda. It has an area of nearly 

 54,000 square miles, of which many thousands are occu- 

 pied by ramifications of the Ural mountains, and by 

 marshes, and by immense forests. The soil is in general 

 clayey, but there is a large tract of rich fertile mould on 

 the banks of the Kama. The climate is cold, especially 

 in the north ; but the population, who are of the Finnish 

 race, are diligent cultivators, and a considerable quantity 

 of corn is exported. The export trade is not extensive, 

 but amongst other articles of export are firewood, timber, 

 tar, game, pottery, honey, and wax, and also copper and 

 iron. 



There are in the Government several navigable rivers ; 

 amongst others the Kama, the Viatka, the Tcheptza, and 

 the Kilmes. Viatka, the capital of the Government, a 

 town of 8000 inhabitants, is situated at the confluence of 

 the Viatka river and the Klinoritza. Thence are sent to 

 Archangel corn, flax, linseed oil, tallow, honey, and wax. 



The Viatka, giving its name to the capital and to the 

 Government, rises in the eastern part of the Government, 

 and after a curved course of 500 miles, in which it passes 

 Viatka, Orlov, Kotelnitch, Malinisch, and Mamadich, it 

 flows into the Kama on its right bank, near to the last- 

 mentioned town. Its principal affluents are the Kobra, the 

 Letka, the Velekaia, and the Maloma, on its right bank ; 

 and the Tcheptza and Kilmes on the left. 



I am informed that in the Governments of Perm and 

 Viatka you find chiefly red pine, Dantzig and spruce fir, 

 birch, larch, cedar, mountain ash, elder, aspen, lime, crab, 

 and raspberry and black currant bushes, &c., all of them 

 indigenious, and attaining to great magnitude, perfection, 

 and beauty. 



In the Government of Perm the area of Crown forests is 



