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to Uft Kamenogorfki, and did not purfue its firft 
dire&ion from Eaft to Weft, but turned off to the 
North, as appears from the accounts from the Forts 
Schoulbinfk and Semipalatnaja and others, its courfe 
muft have been interrupted in its way, by fome unfur- 
mountable obftacle, towards Uft Kamenogorfki. This 
obftable fee ms to have been no other than the river 
irtifch, which runs from South to North, whence 
it follows too, that the inflamed matter did not lie 
fo deep as the bottom of the river, as it would other- 
wife have followed the direction of the ridge of 
mountains that extends towards the Wed. 
6. The account from Barnaoul feems to confirm 
this opinion, and fhews that the deviation of the 
Earthquake happened near Fort Ufl: Kamenogorfki, 
which lies directly to the South Weft of Bar- 
naoul. 
XXXIV. 
