"Lake Baikal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... population of over 80,000. It stands on a peninsular formed by the confluence of two rivers, the clear and swiftly-flowing Angara (which rises in Lake Baikal to join the river Yenisei just below Yeniseisk), and the small and unimportant Irkut river. It is an unfinished, slipshod city, a strange mixture of squalor and grandeur, with tortuous, ill-paved streets, where the wayfarer looks instinctively for the "No-thoroughfare" ...
— From Paris to New York by Land • Harry de Windt |
