. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. LIMANS AND COAST-LINE. 281 float a man-of-war, and the name, which in Tatar means "joort," seems to show that at no distant epoch some of them still served as harbours of refxige. But they must all be gradually filled in by the alluvia of the rivers, and one has already entirely disappeared between those of Tiligul and Berezan. Owing to the frequent variations in their saline character, they contain no fish beyond some annelida and Crustacea described by Nordmann and Milne-Edwards. Their shores Fig. 139.— IV THE East of Bessarabia
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. LIMANS AND COAST-LINE. 281 float a man-of-war, and the name, which in Tatar means "joort," seems to show that at no distant epoch some of them still served as harbours of refxige. But they must all be gradually filled in by the alluvia of the rivers, and one has already entirely disappeared between those of Tiligul and Berezan. Owing to the frequent variations in their saline character, they contain no fish beyond some annelida and Crustacea described by Nordmann and Milne-Edwards. Their shores Fig. 139.— IV THE East of Bessarabia. Scale 1 : 460, 5 Miles. are very unhealthy in autumn, but at other times they seem beneficial in the case of certain disorders. The southern seaboard of Russia presents a surprising regularity of outline. The steppe terminates on the Euxine with a steep cliff fringed by a narrow strip of beach, and south of the Dnieper liman the coast-line assumes a remarkable elegance of form. Those long lines of sand gradually thrown up by the waves seem to follow the current from east to M^est, and then southwards to the Danube, 164. 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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