Amoor

The name Amoor was given by the Russians, and is considered a corruption of the Gilyak word.

Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865

From Ohotsk to the mouth of the Amoor is a direct course of about four hundred miles.

Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865

It was a little curious to see at the mouth of the Amoor a steam fire engine from the Amoskeag Works at Manchester, N.H. The engine was labelled 'Amoor' in Russian characters, and appeared to be well treated.

Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865

On the 19th, in the morning, the “Albatross” was over the strait of La Perouse between Saghalien and Northern Japan, and had reached the mouth of the great Siberian river, the Amoor.

Robur the Conqueror 2003

If the troops of the Amoor and the province of Takutsk did not arrive in time to occupy it, Irkutsk, the capital of Asiatic Russia, being insufficiently garrisoned, would fall into the hands of the

Michael Strogoff 2003

A line from the confluence of the Usuri with the Amoor, seven hundred miles above the mouth of the latter, thence southward, on the bank of the Usuri, to Lake Kingka, and thence to the port of Vladi Vastok, on the coast of Tartary, opposite the port of Hakodadi, on the eastern coast of the Japanese Sea.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various

From Perm a railway runs up to the Pass of the Ural mountains to Ekaterinenburg, probably to be in course of time continued to Tiumen, Tobolsk, Tomsk, Irkutsk, the Baikal Lake, the Chinese frontier at Kiakhta, the banks of the Amoor, and the shores of the Pacific Ocean.

Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

When Watkinson started from the middle of Asia to visit the newly acquired country of Russia -- the beautiful, fruitful, invaluable country of the Amoor -- he was confronted at the very outset by a cluster of seven of these very mounds, and his book, from that time forth, extending over thousands of miles, is full of descriptions of these unknown earthworks.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

A line, with the necessary submarine cables, from the mouth of the Amoor

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various

Two exploring parties have been dispatched from San Francisco: one to examine the route through Eastern Siberia, between Behring's Strait and the Amoor; and the other to follow the proposed route up the Frazer

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various