CASSIA

a district extending be the north-west slope of the Caucasus tains and the. Black Sea, The tants of this mountainous region long been famed for their beauty, * and love of freedom. Unjustly over to Ru ia by the treaty of nople, in 1829, they did not submit at a long and sanguinary strugele. “CE. in cla ical mythology, a fabled —— eee on _ pag rote y es, wanderings, ‘island, and she changed some of his anions into pigs. Uly es, however, wed her to remove the spell, after he stayed with her for a year. [s. 100]