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EUSSIA IN EUEOPE. 



the scattered whitewashed dwellings of the Little Russians surrounded with 

 trees and flowers, on the other long streets of bare wooden houses unrelieved by 

 the least verdure. 



Topography. 



In the Upper Don basin one oP the first towns is Kdikovka, near where was 

 fouo-ht the battle of Kulikovo Pole, in which the Muscovites and Lithuanians 



Fig. 229.— Kharkov. 

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gained a signal triumph over the Tatars in 1380. In this region, one of the most 

 fertile of the " black lands," there are numerous towns doing a large trade 

 in agricultural produce : such are Yefremov, Lebedan, Livu'i, Yeletz, Zadontik, 

 Zemliansk, all exporting corn and cattle to Odessa and Taganrog. The most 

 important is Yeletz, on the Sosna, a western affluent of the Don. 



The Voronej also waters a populous region containing some large places, such 



