A GREAT RIVER 



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of our visit to the Petchora) in a bottle of excellent 

 Crimean champagne. 



The total course of this great river covers nearly 

 1000 miles. It rises in the Urals, north of the 

 government of Perm, not far from the important town of 

 Tcherdin, which lies upon the watershed of the Petchora 

 and the Kama. 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, which it continues till it falls into 

 the Arctic Ocean by a number of mouths opposite the 

 islands of Novaya Zemlya. 



OLD RUSSIAN SILVER CROSS 



