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DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES IN VOL. 1. 
7. {Facing p. 428.) 
The remarkable mountain of Taganai near Zlataust, or “ Tripod of the Moon” in the Bashkir 
language, is here viewed from the side of an adjacent mountain on the west. I he peaks 
consist of quartz rock like those of the frontispiece, from which they are only separated by 
a valley. The tree in the foreground is intended to represent the Pinus cembra, so cha- 
racteristic of the Ural Chain. Being sketched from a considerable height, the Taganai of 
this drawing scarcely conveys an idea of sufficient altitude. 
8. [Facing p. 437.) 
This view of the Lake Aushkul and the Holy Mount of the Bashkir inhabitants of the Southern 
Ural has been selected from many sketches, as giving a good general idea of one of the 
richest gold tracts on the eastern slopes of the chain, which is seen in the distance. The 
Russian officers are General Anosoff and A I nj or Lissenko, who accompanied Alt. A 1 1 1 1 - 
chison and Lieut. Koksharof from Zlataust and Miask to this spot. 
9. ( Facing p. 448.) 
View of the Guberlinski Hills (South Ural), as seen from the gate of the post-house in the 
village of that name. A Baskhir guard on horseback, with his bow and arrows and spear, 
who accompanied the travellers along this portion of the Kirghis frontier, is contrasted 
with a Russian peasant. 
10, 11. ( Facing p. 450.) 
One of these sketches represents the travellers in their “ tarantass ” (a body of a britchka on 
long wooden poles), approaching Orenburg in the low steppes to the south of the Ural 
Chain ; the other as they are coming back towards the ridges of Carboniferous limestone 
in the Gurmaya Hills of the South Ural. (See also p. 146.) 
12. ( Facing p. 453.) 
A Bashkir summer camp in the high recesses of the Irendyk, or chief ridge of the South Ural. 
In the foreground is Mohammed John, the Bashkir proprietor of the camp, in conversa- 
tion with a Russian settler and a mounted Bashkir. In the middle is a Russianized 
Bashkir officer and two common Bashkirs with a female ; and in the distance are seen the 
mares from whose milk the “ Kumiss ” is being prepared over a fire. Black skins filled 
with Kumiss stand against the wicker-work of the tent, which is covered with a stout felt. 
N.B. (For the two Plates A and B in the Appendix, the one illustrating the palaeozoic corals 
the other teeth Devonian ichthyolites, see the accomnanying descriptions.) 
