. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. BERISLAVâKEEESON. 311 sitcli, or station, of the Zaporogs, and from Nikopol travellers usually start to visit the Tolstaya Mogila, or " Great Torah " of the Scythians, where was found a precious vase almost of Hellenic workmanship, representing the capture of wild horses. On the same side of the river is Berislav, or Bori-skw, formerly a Tatar fortress, taken in 1696 hy Peter the Great. Between this point and Kherson the Dnieper is joined on its right bank by the Inguletz, about the middle course of which there have recently been discove
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. BERISLAVâKEEESON. 311 sitcli, or station, of the Zaporogs, and from Nikopol travellers usually start to visit the Tolstaya Mogila, or " Great Torah " of the Scythians, where was found a precious vase almost of Hellenic workmanship, representing the capture of wild horses. On the same side of the river is Berislav, or Bori-skw, formerly a Tatar fortress, taken in 1696 hy Peter the Great. Between this point and Kherson the Dnieper is joined on its right bank by the Inguletz, about the middle course of which there have recently been discovered extremely rich iron deposits. The ore contains from 48 to 70 per cent, of pure metal, without a trace of sulphur or phos- Fig. 162.âNiKOPO] , PoKKOVSKOVl-, AND IvAPULOVKA. Scale 1 : 350,000. â ^ t^ofP 4?: \>^^'^' Totstay^ â¢.. â¢^ CheriomTik. ^\'.\ '!' '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. 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, Elis
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