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roads between these gentle slopes, we bad before us a view of two 
very remarkable-looking peaks, which were in shape like Egyptian 
pyramids. These, however, by the time we had reached Krasno- 
jarsk, wkick was early in the afternoon, had so changed in their 
appearance that they were only like towering ragged rocks. Near 
the entrance to the town I saw upon iny right a scarp of reddish 
rocks. 
Instead of doing as I ought to have done, and gone for a 
scramble among the surrounding hills, I joined my friends in 
accepting an invitation to sup at the house of the military 
governor. Here the effects of four days’ and four nights’ continnous 
jolting very naturally resulted in my falling asleep in the drawing- 
room of my host. Before midday next morning we were again 
upon the move. The River Yenesei, which we crossed just outside 
the town, is both broad and rapid. On the opposite side of the 
river there is a ränge of sharply-pointed hills, amongst the peaks of 
which I thiuk I recognized my pyramids of the previous day. 
Between the river and the foot of these hills, there is a narrow line 
of cultivation. For some distance outside Krasnojarsk there was 
a eontinuity of cultivated land, and we had many pretty views of 
pine-clad hills, which looked down upon villages and fields in the 
valleys which they bounded. 
On the 29th we passed through the little town of Kansk, a short 
distance beyond which we ferried over the little river Kam. It is 
so clear that all across you can see its pebbly bottom. These pebbles 
are mostiy siliceous, such stones as Flint, Jasper, and Agate being 
common. On the opposite shore we were faeed by a steep bank, at 
least thirty feet in height, to the top of which we ascended through 
a cutting. It was made up of a yellowish sandy soil, with here and 
there a small patch of bluish elay. Growing on its slope there was 
a stunted sweet-smelling Artemisia, and a small succulent broad- 
leaved plant like a house-leek, whilst in the water below there were 
beds of water-weed. Near the top of the embankment the soil as- 
sumed a fine sandy character, which gradually merged into a black 
earth. In one or two places, when these came together, I found 
fragments of bone and chipped flints. With these there were 
many pieces of burnt wood. Some few of the flints were in the 
form of rough arrow-heads without fangs, but the greater number 
were simply chips. In different parts of Siberia large quantities 
of the remains of the early inhabitants have been found. In the 
Museum at Irkutsk I saw many which had been brought to light 
whilst making excavations in the vicinity of the town. Thus, whilst 
digging the foundations for a new military hospital on the banks of 
the Kiver Ooshakofka, a tributary of the Angara, in addition to 
stone arrows and fragments of coarse pottery, a number of imple- 
ments and Ornaments were also found. These latter were made 
frorn ivory, which is apparently that of the Mammoth. One of 
these resembles a dice box (or the head of a croquet-mallet), but 
differs slightly in the diameter of its two extremities, and is not 
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