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the Government. This place, originally intended to supply the Black Sea fleet 

 with guns and projectiles, now mostly produces steam-engines and locomotives, 

 and has also a large corn and cattle trade. Lugan is the chief industrial and 

 tradino- centre between Kharkov and the towns of the Lower Don and Sea of Azov. 



Fig. 233. — Bekijansk Pkninsula and Town. 

 Scale 1 : 180,000. 



Dep'^h nn'ler 

 2| Fathoms. 



2 to 5 

 Pathoms. 



3 Milss. 



Novo-Chcrkask, the capital of the army of the Don, looks down from its lofty 

 site upon the swamps through which the river takes its winding course. Trans- 

 ferred to its present position in 1805, the town has growai in prosperity since an 

 aqueduct supplied it daily with 50,000 cubic feet of water. Below it, and at the 



