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man & Co. and Freeman & Smith , four German houses Ladorf & Co, Sheth & Buhle, Cohen & Newman, and Dickman Bros., besides a few Russian merchants and innumerable small Lozkas and grog-shops.
        The Telegraph line is finished on the Arnoor as high as Haborafka, with an extension up the Usuree river. There is also the branch from Soffisk to D'Castries. As far as I saw the line is well built, good poles, barked and set firmly, comfortable and substantial station buildings, but the line works very badly, why I can not say but I think, owing principally to incompetent operators and negligent repairers. The line is carried on the south side of the river, and a cable was laid across to Nicolaersk, but that being carried away, a brilliant essay was made to suspend a wire over the river, but a mast which they endeavored to raise on the Nicolaersk side broke with its own weight in raising, and at present dispatches are carried over on a small steamer.

There are several very nice little steamers in service of the Telegraph for transporting men, material, &c., up and down the river.  The Officers in charge, Capt. Beltsoff and Capt. Hackett, both of them engineers, have a small iron steamer fitted up very nicely for their travelling on the river.  From these gentlemen we received every kindness and attention.

I could get but very little information as to the country between the Arnorr river and Okhotsk, except from Capt. Lindholm and Capt. Swarts of the