Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c.
CHAPTER XXX.
SITUATION OF THE RUSSIANS AS TO THE CAUCASUS.
History of their Acquisition of the Trans-Caucasian Provinces --General Topography of the Caucasus--Armed Line of the Kouban and the Terek--Blockade of the Coasts--Character and Usages of the Mountaineers--Anecdote--Visit to a Circassian Prince 293