Note 5 — Chapter XX · FROM KRASNOIARSK TO ALEXANDREFFSKY.

It is the same, I suspect, as that mentioned by Mr. Hill in his “Travels in Siberia,” 30 years ago, the dimensions of which he gives as 131 feet long by 98 broad and 52 high. It is of two storeys, and in Mr. Hill’s time was furnished after the most elegant mode of Petersburg. The articles brought from that capital alone cost its owner from £6,000 to £7,000.