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The district where the fair is held, entirely constructed during the present 

 century, is laid out with the regularity of an American town. The central bazaar, 

 nearly a mile long, and over half a mile wide, is liued with rows of shops, in 

 Avhich the wares are disposed according to their nature and place of origin. We 

 thus pass from the hardware or woollen to the fur or tea quarters, and from the 

 Pavlovo to the Alexandrov or Tula avenues. A palace where are held the grand 



Fis;. 211.— NiJNi-NuvGOKOD : Tomb of Minix in the Crypt of the Chukch of the Traxsfigukation. 



entertainments, an Orthodox cathedral, an Armenian church, and a Tatar mosque 



are grouped in tlie " Fairfield," which is continued eastwards by vast warehouses, 



granaries, fish and hardware depots, overflowing into a long island of the Oka. 



The whole quarter is enclosed by a main sewer in the foi*ra of a horseshoe ; but 



the three thousand shops of the central bazaar having proved insufiicient for the 



vast quantities of merchandise annually brought to the fair, three thousand more, 

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