The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

GKUGUYEV—SLA.VANSK—SLAYANOSEBBSK 437100,000 volumes, and (in 1878) 95 professors, 559 students, and a revenue of£530,000. But the place Buffers much from a scarcity of good water.North of Kharkov lies Belgorod, the " White Town," named from its chalkpits,and east of it is the historic town of C/mrjiti/cr, where are the remains ofnumerous gorodishtcha in which ltonian coins are often found ; but its former tradehas been mostly transferred to Kharkov. Below Izuni the Donetz is joined by-Fig. 232.Rostov and Xakhiuilvas.Scale 1 : 116/ 00.Eof Gr,the Toretz, on the upper course of which is the town of Slavansk, a serf settlementdating from the middle of the eighteenth century, and now chiefly engaged in thepreparation of salt from the liman and other little saline lakes in the vicinity.Slavanoserbsk, another Serb colony, founded in 1753, lies on a dead branch of theDonetz, within the limits of its coal basin, and east of the Lugan, or Luganskmetal works, established here by the Englishman Gascoyne in 1795 on behalf ofVOL. V. G G