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EUSSIA IN EUEOPE. 



Lug-, a tributary of the Northern Bug. It was wasted by the Mongolians, and 

 again by the IS^ogai Tatars and the Cossacks ; but it has since revived, and its 

 Jewish traders do a considerable business with Galicia. South-east of it lies 

 Kremenetz, also an old place, with a picturesque ruined castle. Between the two 

 is Lutzk, formerl}' capital of a powerful principality, and in the sixteenth century 

 one of the great cities of Slavdom. Dubno, situated picturesquely at the entrance 

 of a defile on a peninsula nearly surrounded by the Ikva, is almost entirely 

 peopled by Jews, as is also Ostrog, in the Upper Gorin valley, and formerly capital 

 of an independent principality. Here the first complete edition of the Slavonic 

 Bible was printed in 1581. Numerous ruins and the remains of a strong castle 



Fig. 144. — The Dubno Defile. 

 Scale 1 : 320,000. 



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recall its former greatness. Near the Austrian frontier lies Staro-Coustantiiiov, 

 another Jewish town doing a large trade in cereals, live stock, and salt with 

 Austria and Prussia. 



Middle and Lower Dxieper, Bug, and Dniester. 



(Ukrania, New Kussia.) 

 In Russia the ethnical domains seldom coincide with the river basins, and still 

 less with the frontiers of provinces, often laid down capriciously, or even for the 

 express purpose of running counter to national sentiment. Thus the Little Russians 

 are by no means confined to the Dnieper basin, but stretch westwards to that of 



