Irtish

* The genuine appellation of Ugri or Igours is found on the western confines of China; 23 their migration to the banks of the Irtish is attested by Tartar evidence; 24 a similar name and language are detected in the southern parts of Siberia; 25 and the remains of the Fennic tribes are widely, though thinly scattered from the sources of the Oby to the shores of Lapland.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

She told me that once when she was returning to her village after visiting her mother, she had to go through the river Irtish which was frozen at that time.

The Lipinsky Memoir, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Eight years later it was known as a positive fact that he had been drowned in a flood when crossing the Irtish.

The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories 2006

“Yes, sire; our dispatches have reached them, and we are assured at the present moment that the Tartars have not advanced beyond the Irtish and the Obi.”

Michael Strogoff 2003

“If the Kirghiz descend the Irtish, the route to Irkutsk will not be safe,” observed his neighbor.

Michael Strogoff 2003

The only sentiment of love felt by Michael Strogoff was that which he entertained for his mother, the aged Marfa, who could never be induced to leave the house of the Strogoffs, at Omsk, on the banks of the Irtish, where the old huntsman and she had lived so long together.

Michael Strogoff 2003

Feofar-Khan at their head, have passed Semipolatinsk, and are descending the Irtish.

Michael Strogoff 2003

The middle horde, the richest, is also the largest, and its encampments occupy all the space between the rivers Sara Sou, Irtish, and the Upper Ishim, Lake

Michael Strogoff 2003

On working days she would go to see him at work either at the workshops or at the brick kilns, or at the sheds on the banks of the Irtish.

Crime and Punishment 2002

He had placed much hope on a little boat, which was often forgotten at evening, moored in the Irtish.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various