Publisher's Synopsis
Interesting History of the Yenisei, Angara and Selenga RiversGavriil Andreevich Sarychev; Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the North-east of Siberia: The Frozen Ocean, and the North-east Sea; Vol 1-2; R Phillips; 1806Gavriil Andreevich Sarychev writes: "About the middle of September, I was dispatched with some workmen from Petersburgh to Ochotsk, to forward the requisite preparations at the different places. The badness of the roads greatly retarded my progress as far as Tobolsk, but this impediment ceased with the setting in of the cold weather. On the 23d of October, I exchanged my wheeled vehicles for sledges, with which I passed over the river Irtysch. The ice in the Ob not being set on the 28th, we crossed it in the boats, but not without very great danger. During the rest of my journey I found all the other rivers passable by the sledges, except the Angara, in the neighbourhood of Irkutsk, which, from the violence of the stream, remains open till December, and I reached this place on the 10th of November."
