BERISLAV— KEEESON. 



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sitcli, or station, of the Zaporogs, and from Nikopol travellers usually start to visit 

 the Tolstaya Mogila, or " Great Torah " of the Scythians, where was found a 

 precious vase almost of Hellenic workmanship, representing the capture of wild 

 horses. On the same side of the river is Berislav, or Bori-skw, formerly a Tatar 

 fortress, taken in 1696 hy Peter the Great. Between this point and Kherson the 

 Dnieper is joined on its right bank by the Inguletz, about the middle course of 

 which there have recently been discovered extremely rich iron deposits. The ore 

 contains from 48 to 70 per cent, of pure metal, without a trace of sulphur or phos- 



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phorus, and said to be of better quality than any other in Russia. But until these 

 mines are connected by rail with the Don coal-fields it will be impossible to utilise 

 them, the country being absolutely destitute of timber. The beds already 

 surveyed contain at least 130,000,000 tons of ore. 



Alcshki, on the left bank, was the old seaport of the Lower Dnieper, and in 

 the tenth century the emporium of the Greeks for their trade through Kiev with 

 the Varangians. It was the Olechye which the Genoese modified to Elice, and 

 which has been identified with the Hylea, or "Wooded," of Herodotus. At 

 present it is a commercial outpost of Kherson, about 6 miles east of it, on the 



