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the value of about £6,000,000 yearly. The goods are mostly warehoused in 

 caverns, apparently of prehistoric origin, with a total length of 260 miles below 

 the town. 



Topography. 



On leaving the Kiev government the Berdichev Ptiver joins the Teretev just 

 above Jitomir, capital of Volhynia, situated at the limit of the forest and treeless 



Fig. 153. — Berdichev axd Jitomir. 

 Scale 1 : 300,000. 



E.of P. 26°I0- 



26°30' 



E.ofG 28°50' 



SS'SO' 



5 Miles. 



region, which also forms an ethnical frontier between the Polishchiûd, or " Forest 

 People," and the StepovM, or " Steppe People," as the Little Russians on either 

 side of the separating line designate each other. Jitomir does a large trade in corn, 



