1018 Recent Literature. [October, 
talents as an observer, but as a traveler and a narrator, The 
is told in an exceedingly interesting way ; the illustrations, by 
Whymper, are dainty, well drawn, and add vastly to the interest 
and ethnographic value of the book, the author having an eyeto 
the social peculiarities of the Asiatic tribes he’ met as well as ther — 
was made overland by winter (1877-8), from St. Petersburg to 
the River Yenesay at Krasnoyarsk, going northward down the 
river to its tributary, the Koorayika. Mr. Seebohm spent the 
spring there waiting for the ice to break up and leave the river 
so as to release the steamer belonging to his companion, Captain 
Wiggins, who had planned to take her laden with wheat around 
through the Arctic sea to England. It may here be said that the 
steamer was stranded in the Yenesay, and that the two retummel 
overland. es 
The phenomenon of the breaking up of the Siberian nvers® 
an exceedingly interesting one. lt should be borne in mind that 
streams. es 
The winter lasted till the first week in June, ice forming “0° 
night in May. “ On the Ist of June a revolution took p ; 
ice. There had been scarcely any frost during the night. 
wind was south, not very warm, but the sun was unu» Li r 
As we turned out of the cabin after breakfast, we were J the 
time to see a small range of mountains suddenly form and the 
lower angle of the juncture between the oo-ray ka night, 
Yen-e-say, The river had risen considerably during e anet 
and the newly-formed strip of thin ice, on each side of i fe a 
ice, was broader than it had ever been. The pressure tong atd 
rent underneath caused a large field of ice, about a mile long 
a third of a mile wide, to break away. Ab h ; 
a passage down the strip of newly-formed thin ice, pee ep 
water behind it; the other half rushed headlong 0^ i i 
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ains, fifty or sixty feet high, and picturesque ong, 
