46 THE FOREST LANDS OF NORTHERN RUSSIA. 



miles long, and 30 versts or 20 miles broad. It is through- 

 out its whole extent studded with islands, which, according 

 to the idea prevailing in the locality, are equal in number 

 to the days of the year. Some of these have an area of 

 50 square versts. Many are covered with woods, but 

 uninhabited and unsurveyed, so that their contents are 

 unknown ; many of them find no place on the map, and 

 their area is considered as lake, though some of them have 

 good available soil, or are covered with valuable forests of 

 pine. 



' On the shore of the Vuigozero is the Yuigozero Podost, 

 the most southern station in the Government of Olonetz 

 for village administration, and this uninviting spot must 

 be for a time my place of residence.' 



Mr Judrae states what his duties were, and communi 

 cates some valuable information relative to forest operations 

 there and in similar localities, all of which may be after- 

 wards given in detail. Here it is this journey and the 

 aspect and condition of the country as seen by him which 

 alone engages our attention. Of this he thus resumes 

 details : 



' My duties on the forest estate of Vuig being finished, 

 on the 9th of September I left this place to go further to 

 the north and the north-east, to that part of the Povonetz 

 district inhabited by the Corrells or Karrells ; I had to go 

 by boat on the Vuigozero. We had a favourable wind, and 

 the well-filled sails carried the small boat along with great 

 rapidity. 



' I might have proceeded directly to my destination, but 

 I could not deny myself the pleasure, being there, of visit- 

 ing the village of Voitzi, situated at the northern extremity 

 of Vuigozero, 100 versts distant from the White Sea, and 

 in the Government of Archangel. This village is well 

 known as the site of a gold mine, which is now a thing 

 of the past. Gold was discovered there in 1735 by a 

 peasant Tarass Antonoff. Mr PoushkarofT, in describing 

 the Government of Archangel, says that at Voitzi, quartz 



