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SITUATION OF THE RUSSIANS AS TO THE CAUCASUS.

History of their Acquisition of the Trans-Caucasian Provinces --General Topography of the Caucasus--Armed Line of the Kouban and the Terek--Blockade of the Coasts--Character and Usages of the Mountaineers--Anecdote--Visit to a Circassian Prince 293

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