Grigoriopol

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 423–424

Grigoriopol, a town of Kherson, South Russia, on the left bank of the Dniester, 82 miles NW. of

A heraldic illustration of a griffin, a mythical creature with the body and legs of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle, shown in profile facing left.
Griffin
(Heraldry).

Odessa. Its 7918 inhabitants cultivate tobacco, wine, and fruit, and manufacture leather.

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