Show 1 L LA KE KET H l L TH T HERALD ba has to 1 supply supply fO some C information about Lkc Lake In Iber ib that that form forms the only gap In tile tHe rai rail railway way between St Petersburg and Vladivostok Lake Is qi bf t the larget largest and Jot most Doi s of fresh tresh water In fn word I It I is 9 from s n and varies arJes in width from thirteen t to QUe It Its area is estimated at about square mies miles Lake Baikal Js Is or r other things In addition to o It Its nm lt I It is 1360 feet above thee L see and andI andIs I Is set down in the midst of at steep moun tin thin range ranges that In places rIse sheer from the edge de In walls ot of conglomerate rate or s syenite enie Else Elsewhere Elsewhere where their slope are coVEred wih with trees of the pine variety tree Several rh nv er ens flow into t the c lake them being the Angara tho tl sel the and oth r TJ lae has only one known outlet b by wa way of the Lower Angora I It Is sla said that th the w ter t wonder wonderfully older I fully cl clear At n a depth f ight f fath fathoms th thom oms om feet the bottom can be plainly leR ee varies In depth from fathoms fathoms to more than 30 fathoms I It Is fun full of fh fish o of nany many and id seal sealing In ing goes on on its its shore shores throughout the short summer seaon season The samon Is aTho I there thero The clImate around Lake Bat Bai Baikal hat kal Is excessively se severe r which is not unnatural when we remember that It 19 lies between the fiftieth ad and sixtIeth parallels of latitude north This puts i it In the thc same position as the southern p portion of on the AmerIcan contInent Winter Inter conies comes on carlyon early on Lake Bal ltd Ital I It his liu b been en frozen over oer no later Inter than In some so ns but or I it does not freeze until about I the frt first ot of November The Tie gap which it makes In the ibo Ian r railway wa waIf If Is covered In summer r by meas or of grat great teries ferries buit built so that they can II Ic ice of great groat thickness Even Een these powerful bont boats however cannot I erush the ice In Lk Lake Balks through throughout out Inter vinter a Is evidenced b by the th foci c that th the have just fr r ng rAis rails croS It on Ice eigHt feet thick thick The mice is forty poh point t 10 To gnp appe tJ the railroad Is now around the south end ond ot of rank mak makInS InS lug necessary 0 a detour of of 12 mie miles This work will 1 it is Ir expected b be com coin compte tinie during the pr preSent sent year ear This is provIded the J Japs ps do not take al all a of Siberia Siberia ar away I from Ru the railroad along with the rest oth countr country I |