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Title: Side-lights on Siberia; some account of the great Siberian railroad, the prisons and exile system;
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Simpson, James Young, 1873-1934
Subjects: Prisons -- Soviet Union Exiles -- Russia (Federation) Siberia Siberia (Russia) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Edinburgh and London : W. Blackwood and Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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THE RAILWAY AND THE MARCH. 193 from the sergeant they rose to their feet, and commencedsingly to clamber up into the waggon—the last of a shorttrain—that stood on the side-line beside them. It is hardfor one who has not seen the circumstances of the marchto estimate the far-reaching benefit to humanity that theTrans-Siberian Railway will render in this respect. Forthose exiles whose destination is the silver mines of Nert-chinsk, the weary march will each year become more ofa vanishing quantity. Moreover I should not be surprisedif, when the railway is completed as far as the town ofNertchinsk, the need even for it in the capacity of convict-transporter will have entirely disappeared, for one gets theimpression that we are seeing the last phases of a systemthat is passing away.
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Oh the horizon. 194 CHAPTER VII. ALEXANDEOVSKY CENTRAL. PAST OPINION REGARDING SIBERIA — EVOLUTION OF THE PRISON —STATISTICS — THE SIBERIAN EXILE SYSTEM — DISTRIBUTION OP EX-CONVICTS AND EXILE SETTLERS — ALEXANDROVSKY CENTRAL—THENATCHALNIK — THE ORPHANS HOME — THE CHURCH — THE PRISONBUILDINGS — UNUSUAL PRECAUTIONS — THE OUTHOUSES — CAPITALPUNISHMENT—THE PLET—BRANDING—INDOOR LABOUR—THE PER-ESILNI PRISON—THE HOSPITAL—LOCAL PRISON AT IRKUTSK—CON-TRASTED WITH ALEXANDROVSKY CENTRAL—OP ANIMAL FOOD—THEDARKER POSSIBILITIES OPEN TO A FREE-COMMAND. Thence come we to the horror ami the hell,Tlie large great kingdoms, and the dreadful reignOf Pluto in his throne where he did dwell.The wide waste places, and the hugy plain.The wailings, shrieks, and sundry sorts of pain, The sighs, the sobs, the deep and deadly groan ;Earth, air, and all, resounding plaint and moan. — The Mirror for Magistrates, 1559. These Hues from a poem by Sackville, Lord Buckhurst,i

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