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Account o f the Ruffian and Chinefe fettlem ents upon the
confines o f Siberia— defcription o f the Ruffian fron tier
town Kiachta— o f the Ghinefe fron tier town Maimatf-
chin— its buildings., pagodas, & c .
T ) Y the laft mentioned treaty it was ftipulated, that
the commerce between Ruffia and China ffiould be
tranfadted at the frontiers. Accordingly two fpots were
marked out for that purpofe upon the confines of Siberia,
where they border upon the Mongol defert; one near Runr»am}
the brook Kiachta, and the other at Zuruchaitu. The ment upon the
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defcription of the former of thefe places forms the fub- K,adl:a-
jedt of this chapter.
This fettlement confifts of a Ruffian and Chinefe
town, both fituated in a romantic valley, ffirrounded
by high,rocky, and for the moft part well-wooded, mountains.
This valley is interfered by the brook Kiachta
which rifes in Siberia, and, after waffiing both the Ruffian
and Chinefe town, falls into the Bura, at a fmall diftance
from the frontiers.
The Ruffian fettlement is called Kiachta from the
, ^ Ruffian Fronabovementioned
brook : it lies in 124 degrees 18 mi-j'irJ “"t
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