||\ THE NIEPER. 
Yticipai source of this great river issues from lake 
government of Novogorod, in about 59 
f latitude : another considerable source is 
r‘of S'" a small lake to the south-east, in the govern- 
V These two streams unite at the capital of 
near which the Volga first becomes navigable. 
^ .'"‘s river, but the Duna, the Nieper, and, indeed, 
V Vast, rivers of European Russia, take their rise 
Soig , ^st of Volkonski, which extends on the side 
almost to the gates of Moscow. 
Ad "'s of the Volga are in general fertile and well 
greater part of the Russian oaks growing m 
*•!{! it waters. It is navigable for large ships; 
' *'S of spring IS so swollen by the 
A. ice and snow, as to cause great inun- 
P)/ bay„ "is season is carefully watched by navigators, as 
ov li™o "O'- °o'y i-i’® opportunity of a safis 
*iv^a the shallows, but over several flat islantfa 
ttl a considerable depth under water. Ihis 
an(j 'p® several mbutary streams, particularly tlie 
“ttria, and abounds with that species of whale 
Sa, from ten to eighteen feet in lengtli. 
V,«vi 
THB DON 
•0 ^ - 
’'si^'''aoo’ Tanais of the ancients, has its source in 
^ n ^^sero, or St. John’s lake, near Tula. It runs 
A dirp ! south, and, after its confluence with the 
i[ 1 '^1 \vii^ its course from east to west, whence, taking 
V.Sth i "gs. It again runs from north to south, dividing 
A® three cliannels, and falling into the sea of 
'Qj part Course it approaches so near the Volga, that 
e» furty-nine degrees of latitude, the distance 
®'s"*tty miles. This led Peter the Great to 
\ 3tid^'^ uniting these two rivers by the means of 
i'cti progress was made in this enterprise, tte 
• which was, however, abandoned on hi* 
J<N 
Kt^^'t 
THE NIEPER. 
^he ancient Boiysthenes, issues from a morass 
of V„i — hundred and twenty mile* 
and makes several windings through 
torn ^olconski, 
"tolensko, and 
