Note 30 — THE FORESTS AND SPORT OF SIBERIA.
Margaret R. Thomson translation
[Note 30] p. 129.—Taiga.
“A strip of Alpine region, 100-150 miles in breadth, consisting of separate mountain-chains whose peaks rise from 4800-6500 feet above sea-level, and beyond the limits of forest vegetation.” According to Radloff, the name taiga is also generally applied by the Kalmucks to wooded and rocky mountain-land.