The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

-412 RUSSIA IN EUROPE.In the snowy wastes of the Kama basin, towns and villages, all originally oldfortresses, trading and mining stations, occur at rare intervals. Cherdin, theearliest of these colonies, occupies a vital position on a head-stream of the Kama, ata point where navigation ceases, and where begin the portages towards thePetchora. Solikamsk, on the Kama, below its great northern affluents, has recentlyacquired importance from its salt works, although these are less productive thanFig. 214. Passes of the Middle Urals.Scale 1 : 855,000.;>'? *'"""•«*' :*/. .Tel-.IraV s -._ _i__ ' ~ M lyiist_ of G. I$7°those of its neighbours, Dedukhin, Lenva, and Novo'ie-Vsohje, at the head of thesteam navigation of the Kama.* Perm, a little below the junction of the navigableChusovaya, was a mere hamlet when some copper works were founded here inYield of the Solikamsk salines (1876) 18,500 tons.,, Dedukhin ,, „ 28,500 „„ NovoYe-TJsolye „ „ 67,480 „„ Lenva „ „ 69,500 „