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really seemed like enchantment. We visited the
tneatre IN the evening and witnessed very credit
able performance. = The hospitality of
the principal citizens was upbounded the people
Knd and civil, society agreeable, ladies handsome,
wine good and dinners excellent What could
traveller ask more? We had hot baths sleigh
rides, pic-nics, icehs. suppers, routs and sleigh
promenades to refresh and divert US"
The Governor General arrived few days after
our Commercial Agent, and gave a reception din
ner," at which our two Americans figured among
sixty other guests. After describing the Govern
or's palace we get to the dinner table to which
--"the General led the way, in hall about seventy
i've feet long and thirty wide, with a very lofty
ceiling. military band of music occupied an
overhanging gallery. The dinner was extremely
well served, and doubt whether better could be
got at London or Paris. The wines were choice
and abundant and the champagne and white wines
IN particular were of rare excellence and quality"
During dinner, the General Mouravieff proposed
'fAmerica and Russia" which brought all eyes
| the two solitary Americans. Mr.. Collins was equal
| to the crisis, and got off speech in response,
which is duly and at length reported and gave in
return the health of ''Nieolai Nicoaivitch, Lieut..
| General Mouravief ILL.,, &C., &C., BY whose
lghtened, sagacOus and far-seeing policy, in the
opening Of the AmOor river to commerce, this
great, hitherto unknown, country is destined to be
come one of the most important on the globe"
This was received with cheers and music, and after
| dessert and oceans of champagne, the General
gave the health of the two Americans, Messrs.
Peyton & Collins, and Mr. Collins made another
speech.
Irkutsk contains about 90, 900 inhabitants and is
the capital of Eastern Siberia. 1t is situated on
| the Angara, the only outlet of Baikal-a lake
some five hundred miles long and from forty TO
| sixty wide, and, in some places, of unfathOmabe
| depth More than three hundred rivers unite to
make up this beautiful sheet of water, which ri
walls, if it does not snrpass il size, our own Su-
perior.
'Irkutsk thus situated, with a salubrious cline.
| a productive soil, noble rivers, and oriental COM
| merce, rich in gold and silver, iron and coal,
copper and lead salt and asphalt and ivory, pre-
sents to queenly little city, seated upon the
| beautiful shores of the Angara, to whose future
grandeur and prosperity it is not easy at present
to assign limits
Wehave tarricd at Irkutsk overits hospitality and
refinement, because we feel that the existence of
such evidences progress in region so remote,
and regarded desoate and forbidding, will
astonish the general reader even more than the
subsequent details of the undeveoped resources of
| the Amoor country, and the voyage down the
mighty stream that drains it. Our space will not
allow us to pursue our Commercial Agent further.
1t must suffice to say that he prosperously accom-
pished all he undertook, and in doing exhibited
large amount of energy, good temper and sense
He arrived at Nikoliavsky, at the mouth Of the
Amoor, on Friday, the 10th of July, 1857, from
whence he took passage on board an American YES
sci to Honolulu via Japan and Kamschatscha, of
both of which we have some agreeable memoranda.
| Altogether, while compelled to regard Mr..
Collins as more successful as n traveller than as
a rGconteur, we cannot dismiss his book without
the admission that he has added very useful and
agreeable volume to our previous stock of travels.
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