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watershed slopes gently to the south, to the valley of the Dnieper, which enters the government from the north-east and flows due south. The See also:

SOUTHERN

southern See also:

PART

part of the government is See also:

FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

flat and has much in See also:

COMMON

common with the Polyesie of the government of Minsk; it is, however, more habitable, the marshes being less extensive. Mogilev is built up of Devonian deposits in the north, of Cretaceous in the east, and of See also:

TERTIARY

Tertiary elsewhere, but generally is covered with a thick layer of Glacial and later alluvial deposits. Interesting finds from the See also:

Stone See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

Age, as well as remains of the See also:

mammoth, have been made. The See also:

SOIL

soil is mostly See also:

sand, See also:

clay (See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick-clay and See also:

potter's-clay are not uncommon), and See also:

PEAT (possibly connected with Med. Lat. petia, pecia, piece, ultimately of Celtic origin; cf. O. Celt. pet, O. Ir. pit, Welsh peth, portion)

peat-bogs,with a few patches of " See also:

black See also:

earth." The See also:

CLIMATE

climate is harsh and wet, the See also:

AVERAGE

average yearly temperature at the See also:

GORKI, MAXIM (1868– )

Gorki meteorological See also:

OBSERVATORY

observatory being 40°•4 F. (14°.2 in See also:

JANUARY

January and 63°•8 in See also:

JULY

July); See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold nights in summer are often the cause of See also:

BAD, BCD

bad crops. The government had 947,625 inhabitants in 187o, and in 1897, 1,706,511, of whom 861,533 were See also:

WOMEN

women, and 146,752 lived in towns. The estimated See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population in 1906 was 2,024,300. The population is mostly See also:

White See also:

RUSSIAN

Russian. See also:

Agriculture is their See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief occupation.

Out of the See also:

TOTAL

total See also:

AREA

area of 18,546 sq. m. 4o % is held in communal ownership by the peasants, 48 % is owned by landlords possessing more than 270 acres each, and 3 a % by small owners. Most of the private owners belong to the See also:

NOBILITY

nobility. The See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal crops are See also:

rye, oats, See also:

BARLEY (Hordeum sativum)

barley, See also:

BUCKWHEAT

buckwheat, potatoes, though See also:

wheat, beetroot, See also:

FLAX

flax, See also:

HEMP (in O. Eng. henep, cf. Dutch hennep, Ger. Hanf , cognate with Gr. Kavval3er, Lat. cannabis)

hemp and See also:

TOBACCO

tobacco are also grown. See also:

Paper, See also:

SPIRITS

spirits, See also:

WIRE (A.S. wir, a wire; cf. Swed. vire, to twist, M.H.G. wiere, a gold ornament, Lat. viriae, armlets, ultimately from the root wi, to twist, bind)

wire and nails, See also:

leather and tiles are the chief products of the manufactures. The government is divided into eleven districts, of which thechief towns with their populations in 1897 were: Mogilev-on-Dnieper, or Mogilev Gubernskiy (47,591 in 1900), Chausy (5550), Cherikov (5250), See also:

HOMEL

Homel or Gomel (45,081 in 1900), Gorki (6730), Klimovichi (4706), Mstislavl (10,382 in 1900), See also:

ORSHA (Polish Orsza)

Orsha (13,161), Rogachev (9103), Staryi Bykhov (6354), and Syenno (4061). This government was inhabited in the loth See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century by the Slav tribes of the Krivichi and Radimichi. In the 14th century it became part of Lithuania, and afterwards of See also:

Poland. Russia annexed it in 1772.

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