. The earth and its inhabitants .. . goods brought down the Volga are landed at the bend nearest the Don, and for- warded to that river. When besiefrins^ Astrakhan the Sultan Selim II. had already endeavoured to cut a canal between the two rivers, in order to transport his supplies to the Caspian. Peter the Great resumed the works, but the under- taking was abandoned, and until the middle of the present century the portage Mas crossed only b}'^ beasts of burden and waggons. But since 1861 the rivers have been connected by rail. The irregularity of its flow has hitherto been the chief obstacle
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . goods brought down the Volga are landed at the bend nearest the Don, and for- warded to that river. When besiefrins^ Astrakhan the Sultan Selim II. had already endeavoured to cut a canal between the two rivers, in order to transport his supplies to the Caspian. Peter the Great resumed the works, but the under- taking was abandoned, and until the middle of the present century the portage Mas crossed only b}'^ beasts of burden and waggons. But since 1861 the rivers have been connected by rail. The irregularity of its flow has hitherto been the chief obstacle in the way of
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