MOUNT SUGOMAC AND SIBERIAN VIEW THEREFROM. 
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The prominent mountain, which here forms a striking counterfort of the Ural, 
is called Sugomac. On ascending it we were amply repaid, both by finding the 
structure of its flanks and summit most instructive, and also by enjoying a most 
remarkable prospect. Between the Zavod and Sugomac, bosses of greenstone, for 
the most part quite a hornblende rock, throw off gneissose mica schists, and in 
ascending the bill we met with protuberances of syenite ; whilst higher up and in 
the deep recesses of the woods, limestone constitutes isolated masses, in the altered 
condition of white marble, with large crevices and fissures, one of which constitutes 
a cavern, said to be 300 feet in length. 
The summit of Sugomac consists of a rock 1 , which, like some of those alluded 
to near Ekaterinburg, almost defies mineral classification. It is iire Q ulaily schis 
tose and chloritic, but at the same time contains hornblende. It is, therefore, 
either an intrusive or an original depositary rock so much transfused by igneous 
matter that the distinction can scarcely be drawn. From this peak the panoramic 
prospect is very striking. To the west is a vast rolling surface of mountains, made 
up of ridges separated from each other by dark depressions, and all, with the ex- 
ception of the distant stony crest or “ Ural Tau,” covered with the densest forest ; 
in short a primeval woodland, similar to that seen from the Katchkanar (p. 392), 
but differing in offering a more wavy outline. On the east, Siberia lies absolutely 
at your feet, and minor inequalities of the surface being merged, looks like one vast 
plain. The lake and Zavod of Kishtymsk, with rich meadows around them, are in 
the middle ground, and the distance is composed of a woody and partially pastoral 
tract inhabited by Bashkirs, in which, as we were informed, at least a hundre 
lakes exist, ninety of which belong to the proprietor of Kishtymsk. Some o ese 
are represented in the opposite landscape, which we offer as one of the most stn i g 
“ peeps into Siberia” which we met with on the eastern flank of the chain . 
> Sugomac may be considered the southern prolongation of the 
mines of Ufaleisk and the Zavod of Kaslinsk, a It i- also a 
Sibirien, 1783 ), and which consists of clay-slate^ an mica^sc^, ^ Rose> chromate of iron 
tract (particularly between Kishtyms ' an ^calated with serpentine. (See Rose’s Analysis of the 
abounds, occasionally appearing m ayers achists greenstone, with albite and cyanite, also 
occur here, and probably the rare mmei • Kishtymsk were visited by Baron Humboldt and his 
Though the gold mines in the neighbour oo ■ prev ented their seeing or ascending Mount 
party, it appears from M. Rose s narrative t t 
Sugomac. .. , ent M. p e trof, received us with great 
2 The Zavod of Kishtymsk belongs to the ZubofF family, wh g 
