The women, were in hoopless dresses, and held shawls over their heads in place of bonnets.
A hundred versts above Sofyesk the scenery changed.

The mountains on the south bank receded from the river and were more broken and destitute of trees.

Wide strips of lowland covered with forest intervened between the mountains and the shore.

On the north the general character of the country remained.

I observed a mountain, wooded to the top and sloping regularly, that had a curious formation at its summit.