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caniles long, and 30 versts or:20 miles broad. ‘It is through- 
out its whole extent studded with islands, which, according 
vto 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 Vuigozero. 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 thin. 
of the past. Gold was discovered there in 1735 by a 
speasant Tarass Antonoff. Mr Poushkaroff, in describing 
‘the Government of Archangel, says that at Voitzi, quartz 
