. The earth and its inhabitants .. . ^\'.\ '!' 'â¢â¢â¢ Pavfqvka '""â¢â¢' NikopoC . '{^ r\fMîkHîn-PerBVOz} f-v_ i * t n. ""^ |Kamenka]*^, E of G û4" 0 s^-'so ⢠Te rires oPliIis » Métairies 6 Miles. phorus, and said to be of better quality than any other in Russia. But until these mines are connected by rail with the Don coal-fields it will be impossible to utilise them, the country being absolutely destitute of timber. The beds already surveyed contain at least 130,000,000 tons of ore. Alcshki, on the left bank, was the old seaport of the Lower Dnieper, a
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . ^\'.\ '!' 'â¢â¢â¢ Pavfqvka '""â¢â¢' NikopoC . '{^ r\fMîkHîn-PerBVOz} f-v_ i * t n. ""^ |Kamenka]*^, E of G û4" 0 s^-'so ⢠Te rires oPliIis » Métairies 6 Miles. phorus, and said to be of better quality than any other in Russia. But until these mines are connected by rail with the Don coal-fields it will be impossible to utilise them, the country being absolutely destitute of timber. The beds already surveyed contain at least 130,000,000 tons of ore. Alcshki, on the left bank, was the old seaport of the Lower Dnieper, and in the tenth century the emporium of the Greeks for their trade through Kiev with the Varangians. It was the Olechye which the Genoese modified to Elice, and which has been identified with the Hylea, or "Wooded," of Herodotus. At present it is a commercial outpost of Kherson, about 6 miles east of it, on the
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