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 scme 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. 
‘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 
