Ukraine, the land and its people : $b an introduction to its geographyRudnytskyi, Stepan
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Ukraine, the land and its people : $b an introduction to its geography
Rudnytskyi, Stepan
Ukraine; Ukrainians
The Boh, falsely named the Southern Bug, is a real plateau river. It rises in the village
of Kupil, near the source of the Sbruch, on the Austrian border, and flows as a typical
Podolian mud-streamlet, in a flat valley, covered with ponds and swamps. But, beginning
at Mezibiz, its bed becomes rocky, the valley slopes become high and keep approaching
each other. The Boh Valley gradually becomes a cañon-like “yar,” altho it is at no
point so deep as the Dniester Valley. The granite-gneiss formations of the Ukrainian
horst appear here as picturesque shore rocks and slopes along the river and form innumerable
rapids (as, for example, Constantinivka) in the river bed. Stony beds and narrow,
rocky valleys are also found in the most important tributaries of the Boh—the Sob,
Siniukha, Inhul on the left; the Kodima and Chichiclea on the right. All of them have
little water, and in dry summers only a chain of ponds marks the valley road of the
river. The main stream, too, has not much water, being unfit for navigation even in
the time of the spring floods. Only the last 130 kilometers of its course, from Vosnesensk
down, are navigable. At the entrance of the Inhul the Boh begins to widen considerably,
the current becomes slow, and the depth at Mikolaiv sufficiently great to enable smaller
sea vessels to reach its harbor. Slowly widening, the river gradually turns into the
Buh liman, which has the winding outline of a river and unites with the great liman
of the Dnieper. The entire length of the Boh is over 750 kilometers.
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