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be found in abundance.

Immediately around Lake Ovelle grass grows in great abundance, and a great many cattle could be maintained there at trifling cost.  Around the head of Usabghin Bay the barren extends back for 21 or 30 versts without a tree, but by running the line near the mts. poles will not have to be carried far.  Besides it will be better to avoid the swamp and keep on the firm ground of the hills.  If the line crosses the river 30 versts up, being so deep, supplies can be taken up in whaleboats.  A boat can always be kept there for crossing the river in repairer.

Between the Amoor and Okhotsk there is not nor has been the slightest vestige of a road, but on reindeer the traveller rides through any kind of forest, over barrens where sometimes the deer will sink to their bellies, rafts himself and swims the deer over river, where the streams are narrow constructs bridges to walk the deer over and avoid the trouble of taking off their loads.  In winter the travelling is better, especially over the plains, where the snow does not lay so deep as in the woods, and when the streams are frozen over so that there is no trouble in crossing or travelling on them.  If the snow is deeper than 2 feet, it is very fatiguing for the leading deer of a train, but a man walking in advance on small snow.shoes that sink somewhat in the snow, or riding and driving ahead a deer that is trained for that purpose soon breaks a road that the other can