The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

FEREYASLAY. 307the plough of some saint or hero. In this district human remains are still everywhereturned up, and hundreds of tumuli surmount the heights overlooking theFig 158. Pereyaslav.Scale 1 : 200,000.LofP.es^ss-E.of.G. 51° 15Ros valley, all recalling the days when this was the great battle-field betweenRussians, Eumans, Tatars, and Poles.On the east side of the Dnieper the river Trubej waters the government ofPoltava, also one of the historic regions of Little Russia. Pereyaslav, at thejunction of the Trubej and Alta, is said to have been founded by St. Vladimir onthe spot where he overthrew the Pecheneghes.During the later Cossack wars it