"The main' ideas that governed the minds of the Russian engineers in constructing the Trans-Baikal section of the Siberian Railway have been cheapness and rapidity. To get the line built with the utmost speed and for the lowest. cost they have sacrificed everything. The single line of rails starting from Lake Baikal eastwards is so badly {aid that it can accommodate neither fast nor heavy traffic. Ib is a series of sharp curves and steep grade" ents. A rise of one in sixty is frequent and even if the line were a good one, the steep gradients and sharp curves would prevent anything like a fast service of good trains. While the line remains in are deposited, should make every effort good order, its carrying capacity strict~ to free their buildings from these noxious limited, ' But it will not long remain in and dangerous inmates. If, in spite of good working order. It will want con-all precautions, a case of plague appears tinual repairing, and I would not sleep in a town or on a vessel, one should begin manager responsible for the safety of the very sound at nights if I were the traffic by isolating the patienc in an out-building, where mosquitoes, flies and other human parasites" have no access. This
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