Pruth, a left-hand affluent of the Danube, rises in the south-east of Austrian Galicia, on the north-east side of the Carpathian mountains, and flows eastward past Kolomea and Czernowitz; from the point at which it leaves Austrian territory to its embouchure in the Danube at Reni, 13 miles below Galatz, it forms the boundary between Russian Bessarabia and Roumania. Length about 520 miles, navigable from near Jassy, 168 miles.
Pruth,
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 467
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