56° Geographical Notices. 
mterest.* It would not be difficult to compile from them a f 
more reliable and complete report of the Amoor country tha 
could be derived from the observations of many non-scienti 
travellers. 
We proceed to specify some of the accounts of the Russian 
explorations. 
Peschtschuroff’s data. The observations now making b = 
Roskoff may be expected to give still further accuracy to thes 
delineations. The fact is not concealed that there are obstrué ~ 
tions to navigation, especially numerous islands. ae 
: ermikin has reported to the Imp. Geograph. Society _ 
of Russia in respect to the Geology and Natural History of the 
entire stream. Between the Sungari and the mouth of the t 
Amoor, his journal may be considered in its general statements 
as supplemental to that of Peschtschuroff. i 
3. pold Schrenk’s — to the Academy of Sciences giv 
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has sustained a party of explorers known as the “ East Si 
Expedition” under the direction of the astronomer Schwarz. | 
*The more important of these articles, extending thro four volumes of 
Mittheilungen (Gotha, 1855-8), are the following — - 
1856, p.175. Latest Russian Acquisitions in the Chinese Territory ; 
et p. 472. Peschtschuroff’s Surveys on the Amoor ; by the same- 
p. 296. The Amoor Stream; by the same. p. 518. L. Schrenk’s Latest Researches 
1858, p. 70. Maximowitsch’s Researches on the Amoor. 
