Commercial Geography of the World Outside the British Isles
Commercial Geography of the World Outside the British Isles
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This zone is succeeded to the south by a forest zone, giving place in its turn to grassy steppes gradually passing into desert.
Both Amuria and the mountains of southern Siberia are rich in minerals. Gold is found in the Altai, the Trans-Baikal plateau, and the eastern mountains of Amuria. CJoal is know n to exist east of Lake Baikal and near the Usuri, but is as yet little worked.
The economic development of Siberia is only beginning. Half a century ago it was little more than a penal settleme...nt, but since the opening of the Great Siberian line its colonisation by Russian immi- grants is proceeding rapidly. The steppes are fast 158 THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE.
being covered with immense crops of wheat, in the same manner as the opening of the Canadian Pacific Hne led to a rapid extension of wheat-growing in the corresponding plains of Canada.
The Great Siberian line, now under completion, is the longest direct line in the world. Its present Pacific termini are Port Arthur and the commercial port of Dalnyi, both on the Liautung peninsula, and Vladi- vostok, on the 'Qolden Horn of the East' In addi- tion to the line through Manchuria (see page 152), another runs from Vladivostok to Khabarovsk, on the Amur, where passengers and freight are trans- ferred to steamers and carried up the river past Blagovyestchensk, the chief and rapidly developing commercial centre, to Stretensk, from which the rail- way runs due west to Kaidalovo, near Nerchensk, where it joins the main line from Manchuria.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
This zone is succeeded to the south by a forest zone, giving place in its turn to grassy steppes gradually passing into desert.
Both Amuria and the mountains of southern Siberia are rich in minerals. Gold is found in the Altai, the Trans-Baikal plateau, and the eastern mountains of Amuria. CJoal is know n to exist east of Lake Baikal and near the Usuri, but is as yet little worked.
The economic development of Siberia is only beginning. Half a century ago it was little more than a penal settleme...nt, but since the opening of the Great Siberian line its colonisation by Russian immi- grants is proceeding rapidly. The steppes are fast 158 THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE.
being covered with immense crops of wheat, in the same manner as the opening of the Canadian Pacific Hne led to a rapid extension of wheat-growing in the corresponding plains of Canada.
The Great Siberian line, now under completion, is the longest direct line in the world. Its present Pacific termini are Port Arthur and the commercial port of Dalnyi, both on the Liautung peninsula, and Vladi- vostok, on the 'Qolden Horn of the East' In addi- tion to the line through Manchuria (see page 152), another runs from Vladivostok to Khabarovsk, on the Amur, where passengers and freight are trans- ferred to steamers and carried up the river past Blagovyestchensk, the chief and rapidly developing commercial centre, to Stretensk, from which the rail- way runs due west to Kaidalovo, near Nerchensk, where it joins the main line from Manchuria.
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