The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

BEBISLAY-KHEBSON. 3119itch, or station, of the Zaporogs, aud from Nikopol travellers usually start to visitthe Tolstaya Mogila, or "Great Tomb" of the Scythians, where was found aprecious vase almost of Hellenic workmanship, representing the capture of wildhorses. On the same side of the river is Berislav, or Borislav, formerly a Tatarfortress, taken in 1606 by Peter the Great. Between this point and Kherson theDnieper is joined on its right bank by the Inguletz, about the middle course ofwhich there have recently been discovered extremely rich iron deposits. The orecontains from 48 to 70 per cent, of pure metal, without a trace of sulphur or phos-Fig. 162.—Nikopol, Pokkovskoye, axd Kapulovka.Scale 1 : 350.000.H...Nikopoi;mL .TefozersASphorus, and said to be of better quality than any other in Russia.But until thesemines are connected by rail with the Don coal-fields it will be impossible to utilisethem, the country being absolutely destitute of timber. The beds alreadysurveyed contain at least 130,000,000 tons of ore.Aleshki, on the left bank, was the old seaport of the Lower Dnieper, and inthe tenth century the emporium of the Greeks for their trade through Kiev withthe Varangians. It was the Olechye which the Genoese modified to Elice, andwhich has been identified with the Hylea, or ""Wooded," of Herodotus. Atpresent it is a commercial outpost of IOierson, about 6 miles east of it, on thev 2