. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. BOLGAR. 411 history of the Russian sects. Kazau is also an important trading place, standing at the intersection of the great routes from Siberia, the Caspian, and the Baltic. About half the population is occupied with trade and manufactures, the chief industries being Russian leather, lineny, tallow, candles, tanning, distilling, with about a hundred factories, employing (1875) 3,700 hands, and producing goods to the value of £2,500,000. Of Bohjar, the old capital of the Volga Bulgarians, nothing remains except a small village and the ruins cause
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. BOLGAR. 411 history of the Russian sects. Kazau is also an important trading place, standing at the intersection of the great routes from Siberia, the Caspian, and the Baltic. About half the population is occupied with trade and manufactures, the chief industries being Russian leather, lineny, tallow, candles, tanning, distilling, with about a hundred factories, employing (1875) 3,700 hands, and producing goods to the value of £2,500,000. Of Bohjar, the old capital of the Volga Bulgarians, nothing remains except a small village and the ruins caused by Tamerlane in 1391, covering a considerable Fig. 213.—Kazan : The space to the south. Amongst them are the remains of the walls and moat, of the citadel, minarets, palaces, all in the Arab style, and dating chiefly from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Here the peasantry often pick up pottery, coins, and jewellery, and a few mendicant pilgrims may occasionally be met wandering amidst the heaps of rubbish, or prostrate at the tombs of their Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912. New York, D. Appleton and company
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