lake-regions

Updated: May 18, 2025

As for the flat-lands which extend from the Alpine hill-foots to the shores of the Arctic Ocean, and assume the character either of dry deserts in the Aral-Caspian depression, or of low table-lands in central Russia and eastern Siberia, of lake-regions in north-west Russia and Finland, or of marshy prairies in western Siberia, and of tundras in the north, their monotonous surfaces are diversified by only a few, and these for the most part low, hilly tracts.

- Russia: As Seen and Described by Famous Writers