THE DNIESTEE. 



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Thk Dniester (Dnestr) and Bug. — The Limans. 



The Dniester may in a g-eneral way be regarded as forming in its middle course 

 the natural ethnical limit between the Russians and Rumanians. In many 

 respects this river resembles the Dnieper, rising- in the forest region, traversing 

 the "black lands" and the arid steppes, and discharging into a liman of the Black 

 Sea. But it flows through a much deeper bed, and rises in the floods higher than 



Fig. 134. — A Portion of the Middle Dniester. 

 Scale 1 : 250,000. 



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5 Miles. 



its neighbour. The inundations of 1829, 1842, 1845, and some other years were 

 so extensive that the inhabitants accused the Austrians of having diverted another 

 stream to its banks in Galicia. It has an extremely winding course, so that the 

 distance from the Yagarlik junction to the sea, only 101 miles in a straight line, 

 is 242 miles by water, and its total length is 930 miles, nearly equal to that of the 

 Dnieper. Its bed is also continually encroaching on the brackish liman at its 

 mouth. The old arm flowing to the northern extremity of this inlet has long 

 been effaced, and its waters are now discharged through a channel on the east 



