FORESTS OF OLONETZ. 45 



into the interior of the forest, in consequence of the 

 exhaustion of the woods near to the saw-mill. 



' Having crossed the ridge, I found myself in a country 

 manifesting all the characteristics of a northern land. I 

 got into a boat again, and went by the river some ten 

 versts to the village Telekin situated on a river or lake of 

 the same name I say river or lake because it is difficult 

 sometimes to designate precisely what is seen by the one 

 name or the other, or to tell at what point it ceases to be 

 one or the other, and to take the different character where 

 it should be called a narrow lake and where it should be 

 designated a broad river. 



' The general character of the waters in these regions is 

 the following : Picture to yourself a comparatively small 

 lake, having a flow barely noticeable in some one direction. 

 In the direction of this flow the water becomes perceptibly 

 narrower, and the shores get higher, and the water takes 

 the form of a river, distinguishable from the lake above by 

 being narrower and having a greater current, or it becomes 

 a strong rapid, by which the waters flow into a large 

 expanded lake, which serves as a reservoir for the waters 

 of the surrounding neighbourhood. Such are the general 

 characteristics of all the small expanses of water in this 

 region. 



1 All the rivers and rivulets here have a great many 

 rapids throughout their course. For example, the river 

 Vuigozero, which in a course of 100 versts, 66 miles, from 

 its leaving the lake of that name to its flow into the White 

 Sea, has seventeen rapids. The fall of the river through 

 these rapids is 272 feet. In consequence of these rapids 

 all navigation of the river is out of the question. Only 

 timber is floated down these rivers and their confluents in 

 spring and this notwithstanding the stones with which 

 the beds are filled, and other obstacles. From the Vuigo- 

 zero Lake I went 40 versts, 27 miles, by the river Telekin 

 to its embouchure. 



' The Vuigozero or Vuigor Lake is one of the largest 

 lakes in the district of Povonetz. It is 60 versts or 40 



