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still do a yearly business estimated at upwards of £300,000, and channels cut in 

 the live rock supply the motive power from the Narova rapids to several mills 

 and a large lumber factoiy higher up the river. 



In the Neva basin the centres of population are naturally grouped in the 

 south, where the climate is milder, and the soil more fertile than elsewhere. Here 



Fig. 176. — Lake Ilmev, Novgorod, and Stakaya Rusa. 

 Scale 1 : 545,000. 



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31° 20 



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10 Jli'es. 



are Toropeiz, on a wooded lacustrine plateau ; Vch'kii/a Luki and Kliolm, on the 

 Lovat ; SoUzi, in the Shelon valley, which, before the opening of the. railway, did 

 a large trade in hemp. Throughout this district Arab, Anglo-Saxon, and Frankish 

 coins between the seventh and eleventh centuries are frequently picked up, indi- 

 cating a former commercial movement with the East and West, though very few 



