From this range another branches off at the source of the river Vitima, near 113° E. long., which runs to the south-west, separating the rivers which fall into the Amur from those which run westward to the Selenga.

The tutelary genius of mankind / Ripens by slow degrees the final State, / That in the soul shall its foundations find / And only in victorious love grow great; / Patient the heart must be, humble the mind, / That doth the greater births of time await!

Such artists tend to create an imaginary world, a paracosmos where good and evil are starkly represented, where evil powers always challenge the good ones and need to be vanquished time and again.

Compare the two twi-headed serpents which Loeg, in the Serglige Conculaind, sees on the plain of Mag Denna.