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suitable for our purposes could be found. The road from Petroparlowsky to Sheroun , village on the Kamtchatka, where this river begins to be navigable, runs over mountains intercepted by Moss toondras and leads frequently through thick woods of Poplars and birch trees not proper for telegraph purposes. The Kamtchatka River is exceedingly crooked and bears the character of the greater part of streams in Eastern Siberia, wide and navigable in some places frequently shallow to such a degree that in spite of the small draught of our Causes we could hardly get along. The banks of the river are covered with dense forests of crooked birch and poplars, different kinds of bushes growing as high as the lower branches of the trees render the woods impenetrable.

The winter road is straighter but cannot be used in summer on account of the swampy soil. In one place about half way from Sheroun to Klutchi the banks of the river are covered with very fine fir trees, growing thickly, through on a short distance, and being of excellent quality they could furnish a great number of telegraph poles. The banks of the river where fir-woods begin to appear become suddenly of considerable elevation, in some places they are from two to three hundred feet high. Trunks of dead trees under water, make the navigation dangerous in many places.