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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 177 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BOLKHOV , a

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TOWN

town of

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Russia, in the

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GOVERNMENT
GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

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Orel, and 35 M . N. of the

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CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of Orel . Pop . (1897) 20,703 . It is prettily situated amongst orchards and possesses a

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CATHEDRAL

cathedral . There is a lively

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

hemp, hemp-

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SEED (from the root seen in Lat. serere, to sow)

seed oil, hemp goods and

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CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle, and there are hemp-

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SOAP

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WORKS

works and tanneries . The much-venerated monastery, Optina Pustyn, is

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close by .

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