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238 Ulbá. It contains one or two Tatár mosques, two or three Russian churches with colored domes of tin, and an ostrog,

or fortress, consisting of a high quadrangular earthen wall or embankment, surrounded by a dry moat, and inclosing a white-walled prison, a church, and a few Government buildings. The mosques, the white-turbaned mullas, the