DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES IN VOL. I 
I.— LITHOGRAPHIC SKETCHES. 
1. Frontispiece of Part 1. 
Ihis sketch represents the culminating points of the Ural Mountains between Zlataust on 
the west and Miask. The rocks consist of quartz rock (probably metamorphic Silu- 
rian) ; and near their summit is engraved a memento of the visit of the Grand Duke 
Alexander, the heir apparent, when His Imperial Highness ascended to the highest pin- 
nacle (see p. 434). 
2. Frontispiece of Part II. ( Facing p. 338.) 
Gorge of the river Tchussovaya, on the western flank of the Ural Mountains, above Ust-Koiva, 
representing flexures of the Carboniferous and Devonian limestones, chiefly the former 
(see description, p. 388). 
3. ( Facing p. 362.) 
This view represents the geologists descending the Siberian river Issetz, east of Ekaterinburg, 
in small canoes. The peasants are assembled at the village to witness and cheer the pro- 
gress of the travellers, and the chief rural officer of the district is waiting to receive them 
at a river dam near one of the numerous corn-mills on that river. The rocks forming the 
river banks are porphyries. 
4. ( Facing p. 392.) 
View from the summit of the Katchkanar in the North Ural Mountains. The lofty rocks in 
the foreground are of eruptive origin and highly magnetic, and the spectator is looking 
northwards over trackless, dense forests, the distant and loftier peaks being capped with 
snow. 
5. ( Facing p. 395.) 
The Fortress and Monastery of Verkhoturie or Verkoturie, on the Siberian or east flank of the 
Ural Mountains, as seen from the west. Tins was one of the earliest strongholds of the 
Russians constructed after their occupation of Siberia. The rock is a granite. 
6. ( Facing p. 425.) 
The peep into Siberia from Mount Sugomac near Kishtvmsk is characteristic of the boundless 
flat tract occupied by numerous lakes which lies on the eastern flank of the Ural Mountains 
in that parallel. The Church and Zavod (forge) of Kishtymsk are seen below. 
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