Squeezing down into the region on the lower Dneiper, still waiting to reach the sea coast. This is all very flat country, carved into fields when not at war. Developmentally, it's likely been the same for hundreds of years.
Google maps is pushing the Dneiper further south of my original plotting, while the Inhulets river continues to avoid their meeting. The curl of the latter river tells how flat the country is. On GoogleEarth, the Dneiper here is one enormous reservoir, but of course in the 17th century it was just a big river ... from things I've read, navigable but not pleasantly so. The lower Dneiper was known for rocks, shoals and cataracts where the river fell too fast for boats.
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