The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

TOROPETZ-SOLTZI. 331still do a yearly business estimated at upwards of £300,000, and channels cut inthe live rock supply the motive power from the Narova rapids to several millsand a large lumber factory higher up the river.In the Neva basin the centres of population are naturally grouped in thesouth, where the climate is milder, and the soil more fertile than elsewhere. HereFig. 176. Lake Ilmen - ,Novgorod, and Staraya Rusa.Scale 1 : 545,000.31120are Toropetz, on a wooded lacustrine plateau ; Yclikiya Luhi and Eholm, on theLovat ; Soltzi, in the Shelon valley, which, before the opening of the railway, dida large trade in hemp. Throughout this district Arab, Anglo-Saxon, and Prankishcoins between the seventh and eleventh centuries are frequently picked up, indicatinga former commercial movement with the East and West, though very few