. The earth and its inhabitants .. . n L ofG Mounds. Fai'msteads. Sheep-folds. 5 Miles. depth of water at the bar being only from 20 to 24 feet, preventing the access of fully laden vessels of the largest tonnage. Nikolayev is also an important trading place, in this respect succeeding the old settlement of Olbia from Miletus, whose site has been discovered at the Sto-Mogil, or " Hundred Tombs," at the junction of the Bug and Dnieper limans below the town. Although itir behind Odessa in its direct import business, it ships considerable quantities of cereals in favourable seasons, and
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . n L ofG Mounds. Fai'msteads. Sheep-folds. 5 Miles. depth of water at the bar being only from 20 to 24 feet, preventing the access of fully laden vessels of the largest tonnage. Nikolayev is also an important trading place, in this respect succeeding the old settlement of Olbia from Miletus, whose site has been discovered at the Sto-Mogil, or " Hundred Tombs," at the junction of the Bug and Dnieper limans below the town. Although itir behind Odessa in its direct import business, it ships considerable quantities of cereals in favourable seasons, and is the head-quarters of several steamship companies. An outport of Nikolayev is the seaport of Ochakov, or Kara Kerman, the " Black Fortress," situated on the north side of the liman, on the site of an old Greek fort. But the great emporium of South Russia is Odessa, situated right on the coast, and not, like Kherson or Nikolayev, at the mouth of a large river, giving access to the interior. Here are nothing but intermittent steppe streams flowing to the
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