. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. LITHUANIA. 259 lines of erratic boulders. A much larger area is covered by the marshes, especially ill Grodno, though the inhabitants are constantly reclaiming the land for cultiva- tion. The old forests, formerly of vast extent, have also largely disappeared, and the solitary woodmen's huts are now mostly represented by villages, and even towns surrounded for miles by cleared lands. There still, however, remains the vast forest of the Bela-Veja, or "White Tower," covering nearly the whole of the plateau comprised between the sources of
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. LITHUANIA. 259 lines of erratic boulders. A much larger area is covered by the marshes, especially ill Grodno, though the inhabitants are constantly reclaiming the land for cultiva- tion. The old forests, formerly of vast extent, have also largely disappeared, and the solitary woodmen's huts are now mostly represented by villages, and even towns surrounded for miles by cleared lands. There still, however, remains the vast forest of the Bela-Veja, or "White Tower," covering nearly the whole of the plateau comprised between the sources of the Narev and the course of the Bag north of Brost-Litovskiy, with a total area of 850 square miles. But parts of this region, known as Belo-Vejskaya Puchtcha, consist, especially in the south and south-west, of moorlands varied with Fig. 122.—LakiiS and Swamps in the Guveknment of Vitebsk. Scale 1: 170, 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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