The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 22 of 30: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, New Maps and Many Original American Articles by Eminent Authors, Fully Illustrated with Over Ten Thousand Portraits, Plates, and Engravings; Sib-Szo
Excerpt from The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 22 of 30: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, New Maps and Many Original American Articles by Eminent Authors, Fully Illustrated With Over Ten Thousand Portraits, Plates, and Engravings; Sib-Szo Trade is in the hands of a few merchants. The chief market is the nijni-nov orod fair, where Siberian merchants get twelve or eighteen mont 3' credit at correspondingly high rates.' Prices on the Amur are not more favourable, since the trade by sea is pre vented ...
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Excerpt from The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 22 of 30: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, New Maps and Many Original American Articles by Eminent Authors, Fully Illustrated With Over Ten Thousand Portraits, Plates, and Engravings; Sib-Szo Trade is in the hands of a few merchants. The chief market is the nijni-nov orod fair, where Siberian merchants get twelve or eighteen mont 3' credit at correspondingly high rates.' Prices on the Amur are not more favourable, since the trade by sea is pre vented from developing owing to the facility with which great pro fits are made by the exchange of wine-spirit and sables for whisky. The villages are in a still worse condition, whole populations being dependent for the necessaries of life upon a few merchants. The foreign trade is insignificant, and the hundred merchant ships (thirty English) which visited the port of Vladivostok in 1883 came chiefly for the needs of the garrison. The imports of manufactured wares from Russia amount to an annual value of the corresponding exports of raw produce are only about - tallow, hides, furs, and grain bein the chief items. There are several great fairs in Siberia, that of Irbit (with an annual turnover of to being the most important. Those of Ishim, Tomsk, Irkutsk, and Verkhne -udinsk deserve mention. In the north and north-east several fairs, where natives gather to pay tribute, to sell furs, and to purchase food and necessaries for hunt ing, have a local importance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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