. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 314 RUSSIA IN EUROPE. Haji-Bey liman, wliicli has long ceased to communicate with tlie sea, and is now merely a brackish lagoon. Nevertheless Odessa may be regarded as the true port of the Dnieper and Dniester, in the same sense that Yenice is that of the Po, and Marseilles of the lihone. The difficult access to the two Ukranian rivers obliged shippers to choose some common point of more easy approach on the coast, and Fig. 165. — OCHAKOV AND KiNBURN. Scale 1 : 150,000. 29° 10' 29° SO'. srso- 31''40' Depth under 17 Feet. 17 Feet and upwards 2 Mile
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 314 RUSSIA IN EUROPE. Haji-Bey liman, wliicli has long ceased to communicate with tlie sea, and is now merely a brackish lagoon. Nevertheless Odessa may be regarded as the true port of the Dnieper and Dniester, in the same sense that Yenice is that of the Po, and Marseilles of the lihone. The difficult access to the two Ukranian rivers obliged shippers to choose some common point of more easy approach on the coast, and Fig. 165. — OCHAKOV AND KiNBURN. Scale 1 : 150,000. 29° 10' 29° SO'. srso- 31''40' Depth under 17 Feet. 17 Feet and upwards 2 Miles. the necessary conditions were fully supplied by the Gulf of Odessa. Here vessels may anchor in safety, while goods are easily transported across the steppe routes between the rivers and their common outlet on the coast. Besides, of all the western Black Sea inlets, this gulf penetrates farthest inland, and just at the point where the seaboard changes its direction, bending on the one hand southwards, and. 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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