Many cities and thriving towns are picturesquely situated mostly on its right bank, where available sites upon elevated ground have been found,-as in the case of Kostroma, and also at Nijni-Novgorod, where it is joined by the oka.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
The Volga has a course of over twenty-four hundred, and the oka of eight hundred and fifty miles.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Ra-bun-ta was as good a gossip and story-teller as any of his tribesmen, and as he squatted before the upper fire-pit, and ate a hearty meal of parched corn, which the little Ma-ta-oka brought him as a peace-offering, he gave the details of the celebrated capture.
"Historic Girls"
E. S. Brooks
