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the period of Greek colonisation the Borysthenes was accordingly a great 

 highway of communication, interrupted only by the devastating wars which 

 stopped all intercourse. But its importance in this respect is much diminished by 

 the rapids breaking its flow at several points. Above Kremenchug and the Psol 



Fig. 132. — Lower Course of the Desna. 

 Scale 1 : 120.000. 



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junction it falls over 65 feet in 10 miles, and below Yekaterinoslav occur the 

 celebrated ^joro///, or "ledges," so often mentioned in the Byzantine and Russian 

 chronicles and Ukranian songs. The granite rocks forming this barrier generally 

 run right across the stream, with a mean depth in summer of scarcely more than 

 5 feet. The entire descent in a distance of 46 miles is 157 feet, but there is 



