Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Identifier: earthitsinhabita583recl (find matches)
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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THE DNIEPER. 275 the period of Greek colonisation the Borysthenes was accordingly a great highway of communication, interrupted only by the devastating wars which stopped all intercourse. But its importance in this respect is much diminished by the rapids breaking its flow at several points. Above Kremenchug and the Psol Fig. 132.—Lower Course of the Desna. Scale 1 : 120.000. Lôff -„-^-TY^^=^;.5;:p;3^^ : ) > " -r- ^-
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L ofG „ 2 Miles. junction it falls over 65 feet in 10 miles, and below Yekaterinoslav occur the celebrated^joro///, or "ledges," so often mentioned in the Byzantine and Russian chronicles and Ukranian songs. The granite rocks forming this barrier generally run right across the stream, with a mean depth in summer of scarcely more than 5 feet. The entire descent in a distance of 46 miles is 157 feet, but there is

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