HCVIUL 
SEALS, 
Town or Man- 
GAZEA, 
Carre TAIMURA, 
TOWN OF MANGAZEA, 
here his chapel. The mountains ave cloathed with forefts: of large-trees on the 
lower parts ; with fewer and lefler as they gain the heights. Thefe are the:retreat 
of the Wild Boar, and variety of game. Its depth of water is very great: its 
clearnefs perfeé&t: free from iflands, except the Olchon and Saetchia: navigable in 
"all parts: and in fterms, the waves like thofe of the fea. Its length is a hundred 
and twenty-five common Jeagues: its breadth from four to feven*. The Com- 
mon Seal abounds in this lake. It is.a {mall variety, but fo fat as to appear almoft 
fhapelefs. Thefe animals muft have been here aboriginally ; for, befides the vaft! 
diftance from the fea, their paflage muft have been entirely obftructed by the cata- 
racts which intervene. I am got eight degrees beyond my plan ; but I could not 
refift the defcription of this prince of lakes. 
The Angara runs nearly due north for a great way; then affumes the name of 
Tungufca, turns weftward, and joins the Fenefei in lat. 58. The lower Tungufca 
rifes far to the fouth-weft, appreaches very near to the Zena, and falls into the 
Fenefer in lat. 65. 40. Above its junction ftands the town of A¢angazea, cele- 
brated for its great fair of furs of every kind, brought there by the furrounding 
pagans, who pafs the long winter in the chace. Many Ruffians have alfo migrated, 
and fcttled here for the fame purpofe, and draw great profit from the fpoils of the 
animals. This neighborhood is, during fummer, the great refort of multitudes: of 
fpecies of water-fowl. About the feaft of St. Peter, here Flora begins to difclofe her 
beauties: the country is covered with the moft beautiful Szbirian flowers ; many of 
which enliven the gardens of our more fouthern climate. The fowls now exult, 
and unite in emitting their various notes; none particularly melodious in them- 
felves, but together form a concert far from difagreeable + ; perhaps from the hear+ 
er being confcious that they are the notes of happinefs, at the enjoyment of the 
reviving rays of the fun. 
In antient times, Mangazea, or, as it was then called, Mongozey, and Aongolmy, 
was feated near the mouth of the Jaz {; but was removed by the inhabitants into 
a milder climate, 7. ¢. juft to the fouth fide of the Aréic circle. Before that 
period it was a place of great trade, and was eagerly vifited from Archangel, through 
a complication of difficulties, by fea, by rivers, by land, by rein-drawn fledges, 
and by drawing the veffels from river to river over frequent carrying-piaces ||. 
Thefe tracts were certainly Le pais prefque inacceffible a caufe de boiies, & de glaces, 
and, Le pais de tenebres, fpoken of by Marco Polo §, as the regions from whence the 
Chams of Tartary procured the-richeft furs. ’ 
From the mouth of the enefei, the immenfe promontory Taimura ftretches 
* Voyage en Siberie, i. 213. + Same, ii. 56. } Same, 57. | Same, and 
Purchasy iil. 539+ § In Bergeron’s Collection, 160, 161. 
‘ 3 fartheft 
