This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVI. Omsk--Tou-Kalan--Ishim -- Tobolsk -- Kamishloff-- Mr. Major''s establishment -- Ekatherinebourg -- BillimbayZavod--Bissertskaya Kreposte -- Koungour -- Perme-- Okhansk--Kilmess-selti--Malmish--Kazan--Tcheboksari--Vassil--Nishney Novgorod--Bogorodskoye--Paulovo--Vladimir-- Moscow-- Klinn--Tver -- Torjock -- Vishney Volotchock--Novgorod--St. Petersburg. My first duty was to wait upon his Excellency the Governor-general Kaptzevitch, to whom I had the pleasure of being known in Kazan. I was received as usual, and every attention and kindness were renewed to me by my old companions. My passports were also renewed, a public order was given for every legal assistance to be rendered me, and I again prepared to start. Omsk appeared, like most places in Siberia, to have undergone a considerable change; for the streets are kept clean, the gaps are all filled up with new houses, public buildings have been erected for many of the chief officers, a cloth manufactory has been established and is already at work, and the lame, blind, deaf and dumb, are employed in it; the streets are no longer traversed by the begging poor, and a more military air pervades the town than formerly; more of real justice is administered along the whole line of demarcation, and consequently more general satisfaction and tranquillity prevail. I attended an examination of the young Cossacks, three hundred and fifty in number, and, considering their ages, thought them very well advanced in reading, writing, and arithmetic: the senior classes have also made considerable progress in drawing, fortification, algebra, and mathematics; and one, a distinct class, in the art of surveying, with the view of being employed to survey the the whole of Siberia. They are well...
