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Haji-Bey liman, wliicli has long ceased to communicate with tlie sea, and is now 

 merely a brackish lagoon. Nevertheless Odessa may be regarded as the true port 

 of the Dnieper and Dniester, in the same sense that Yenice is that of the Po, and 

 Marseilles of the lihone. The difficult access to the two Ukranian rivers obliged 

 shippers to choose some common point of more easy approach on the coast, and 



Fig. 165. — OCHAKOV AND KiNBURN. 

 Scale 1 : 150,000. 



29° 10' 



29° SO' 



srso- 



31''40' 



Depth under 17 Feet. 



17 Feet and upwards 

 2 Miles. 



the necessary conditions were fully supplied by the Gulf of Odessa. Here vessels 

 may anchor in safety, while goods are easily transported across the steppe routes 

 between the rivers and their common outlet on the coast. Besides, of all the 

 western Black Sea inlets, this gulf penetrates farthest inland, and just at the point 

 where the seaboard changes its direction, bending on the one hand southwards, and 



