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100,000 volumes, and (in 1878) 95 professors, 559 students, and a revenue of 

 £530,000. But the place suffers mucli from a scarcity of good water. 



North of Kharkov lies Belgorod, the " White Town," named from its chalk- 

 pits, and east of it is the historic town of Chdguyev, where are the remains of 

 numerous gorodishtcha in which Eoman coins are often found ; but its former trade 

 has been mostly transferred to Kharkov. Below Izum the Donetz is joined by 



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the Toretz, on the upper course of which is the town of Slaransk, a serf settlement 

 datmg from the middle of the eighteenth century, and now chiefly engaged in the 

 preparation of salt from the liman and other little saline lakes in the vicinity. 

 Slavanoserbsh, another Serb colony, founded in 1753, lies on a dead branch of the 

 Donetz, within the limits of its coal basin, and east of the Lugan, or Lugansk 

 metal works, established here by the Englishman Gascoyne in 1795 on behalf of 



