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The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

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:v.".-'.•302 RUSSIA IN EUROPE.<strong>and</strong> here are printed many Hebrew works. At the junction of the two mainhead-streams of the Desna st<strong>and</strong>s Brans/:, an important place in the governmentof Orel, or Orol, with an arsenal <strong>and</strong> gun foundry. It lies on the main lineof railway connecting Smolensk with Orel, <strong>and</strong> like Trubshovsh, lower downthe river, which is here navigable, does a large transit trade in cereals <strong>and</strong>cattle. Sevsk is memorable in Russian history as the place where the falseDemetrius entrenched himself in 1604, <strong>and</strong> whence he marched at the headof refugees <strong>and</strong> Cossacks to the conquest of Moscow. Other towns in theDesna valley are Sfarodub, a centre of the Raskolnik sectarians ; Pogar ; <strong>and</strong>Fig. 151.— Lim<strong>its</strong> of the Eegiox op Forests <strong>and</strong> Bare Plateaux.Scale 1 : 710,000.;..U%^>.S5"40 tofP'"•v''i °*\ "o -i-Ov''-'° °„"°

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