CHAPTER XVI. 
NORTH URAL OF THE MINERS — ( continued ). 
Environs of Kushvinsk and Mount Blagodat.— Transverse Section from thence across 
the Cham to Serebriansk. Descent of the River Serebrianka to its Mouth. — Descent 
of the Tchussovayafrom TJst- Serebriansk to Ust-Koiva.— Transverse Section across 
the Ural from Ust-Koiva by Bissersk, Chrestovodsvisgensk and the Katchkanar, to 
Turinsk and Verkhoturie.— Environs of Bog oslofsk with Sections.— Descent of the 
River Kakva. — Conclusion. 
^ HE same general character of rocks which prevails in the tract between Eka- 
terinburg and Nijny Tagilsk, extends northwards to Kushvinsk, and thence along 
the eastern flank of the Ural to Bogoslofsk and Petropaulofsk. Reverting to 
the consideration of the most northern of these districts at the close of this 
chapter, we will first take a rapid survey of the principal geological features 
around Kushvinsk, as a prelude to a second general traverse across the chain 
from thence to Serebriansk. 
Brief Sketch of the Environs of Kushvinsk. — Immediately to the east of the Im- 
perial Zavod of Kushvinsk' rise up the hills called the Greater and Lesser 
Blagodat (see PL II. fig. 3), upon and around which much magnetic iron ore has 
been extracted during a century. It was upon the higher of these mounts 
(described by numerous writers 1 2 * 4 , from Pallas in former days, to Humboldt, Rose 
1 Colonel Galahofski of the Imperial School of Mines, Director of the Zavod of Kushvinsk, at the 
period of our visit, afforded us every assistance in his power to facilitate our examination of the environs, 
of which his officers had prepared a detailed lithological map. Kushvinsk has a population of 6000 souls. 
The establishment is now directed by the able mining engineer Colonel Vdlkner, who was so serviceable 
to us at Perm (see p. 144). 
4 This mount, as well as many other of the North Uralian rocks, has been described by Hermann 
Kupfter and Ad. Erman, and Hoffmann. See Hermann’s Mineral. Beschreibung und Erzahlunn- meiner 
Reisen, &c. ; Kupffer’s Essai d’un Tableau Geognostique del’Ourel; and Erman’s Reise um die Erde 
