. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Ô Miles. district teeming with historic memories, but now occupied by the vast estates of the Hussian and Polish nobles, with their palaces and beet-sugar factories. In the Sula basin, comprising a large portion of West Poltava, there are several important places, mostly surrounded by orchards and tobacco plantations. Amongst them are Ronini, at whose annual fair £320,000 worth of goods are sold ; Ncdrigdilov, founded early in the seventeenth century by Ukranian refugees ; and Lnhni, with numerous tanneries and gardens. I^arger than the Sula is the Psol, wa
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Ô Miles. district teeming with historic memories, but now occupied by the vast estates of the Hussian and Polish nobles, with their palaces and beet-sugar factories. In the Sula basin, comprising a large portion of West Poltava, there are several important places, mostly surrounded by orchards and tobacco plantations. Amongst them are Ronini, at whose annual fair £320,000 worth of goods are sold ; Ncdrigdilov, founded early in the seventeenth century by Ukranian refugees ; and Lnhni, with numerous tanneries and gardens. I^arger than the Sula is the Psol, watering the three governments of Kursk, Kharkov, and Poltava, and after a course of 320 miles joining the Dnieper just below KremenchCig. In its basin are the towns of Olshanka, with some large boot factories and distilleries ; Oboyan, an agricultural centre ; Sumi, a trading place whose exchanges amount to about £400;000 yearly ; Lehedin, where Peter the Great made his preparations for the battle of Poltava, and where his friend Menshikov cut the throats of 900
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