. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. THE VOLGA. 36i and rafts are then able to descend from the lake region, and higher up the river becomes regularly navigable. JYear this point the Volga is nearly doubled by the Selijarovka from the winding Lake Seliger, whose insular monastery of St Nilus is still visited yearly by about 20,000 pilgrims. Here may be said to begin the commercial stream, the Ra, Rhas, or Rhos of the ancients and of the Mordvinians, the Yul of the Cheremissians, the Atel or Etil of the Tatars, the Fig. 192.—Sources of the Volga and Dvina. Scale 1 : 575,000. E of
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. THE VOLGA. 36i and rafts are then able to descend from the lake region, and higher up the river becomes regularly navigable. JYear this point the Volga is nearly doubled by the Selijarovka from the winding Lake Seliger, whose insular monastery of St Nilus is still visited yearly by about 20,000 pilgrims. Here may be said to begin the commercial stream, the Ra, Rhas, or Rhos of the ancients and of the Mordvinians, the Yul of the Cheremissians, the Atel or Etil of the Tatars, the Fig. 192.—Sources of the Volga and Dvina. Scale 1 : 575,000. E of E of G. 12 Miles. Tamar of the Armenians—that is, in these langruaffes, the " Eiver "—and in Finnish the Volga, or the " Holy ; Below the Selijarovka it descends the slopes of the plateau through a series of thirty-five porogi, or rapids, which, however, do not stop the navigation, and beyond the last of the series it winds unimpeded through the Great Russian lowlands, receiving numerous navigable tributaries, and communicating by canal Avith the Baltic basin. ' After passing the jjopulous towns of Tver, Rîbinsk, Yaroslav, and Kostroma, it is joined at Nijni-Novgorod by the Oka, of nearly. 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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