The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

8URUSSIA IN EUEOrE.Ilaji-Bey liman, which has long ceased to communicate with the sen, and is nowmerely a brackish lagoon. Nevertheless Odessa may be regarded as the true portof the Dnieper and Dniester, in the same sense that Venice is that of the Po, andMarseilles of the Rhone. The difficult access to the two Ukranian rivers obligedshippers to choose some common point of more easy approach on the coast, and165.— OCHAKOV AND KfNBVRNScale 1 : 180,000.C.Perror>Depth under 17 Feet.17 Feet and upwards.2 Miles.the necessary conditions were fully supplied by the Gulf of Odessa. Here vesselsmay anchor in safety, while goods are easily transported across the steppe routesbetween the rivers and their common outlet on the coast. Besides, of all thewestern Black Sea inlets, this gulf penetrates farthest inland, and just at the pointwhere the seaboard changes its direction, bending on the one hand southwards, and