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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 626 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MANYCH , a See also:

river and depression in S. See also:Russia, stretching between the See also:lower river See also:Don and the See also:Caspian See also:Sea, through the Don See also:Cossacks territory and between the See also:government of See also:Astrakhan on the N. and that of See also:Stavropol on the S. During the greater See also:part of the See also:year it is either dry or occupied in part by a See also:string of saline lakes Winans or ilmens); but in See also:spring when the streams swell which empty into it, the See also:water flows in two opposite directions from the highest point (near Shara-Khulusun). The western stream flows westwards, with an inclination northwards, until it reaches the Don, though when the latter river is See also:running high, its water penetrates some 6o See also:miles up the Manych. The eastern stream See also:dies away in the sandy See also:steppe about 25 miles from the Caspian, though it is said sometimes to reach the Kuma through the Huiduk, a tributary of the Kuma. See also:Total length of the depression, 330 M. For its significance as a former (geologic) connexion between the Sea of See also:Azov and the Caspian Sea, see CASPIAN SEA. By some authorities the Manych depression is taken as part of the boundary between See also:Europe and See also:Asia.

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