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They occupy some forty or fifty miles of the upper valley of the Ingur, at no part exceeding ten miles in width, and are cut off from all outside communication between the beginning of September and the end of May, in consequences of the passes being blocked with snow.
Between Mingrelia and Abkhasia courses the Ingur, and if we ascend to near its water-shed a journey easily accomplished on horse-back, say from Sougdidi, the well-known military station we should find ourselves amongst a very wild and singular people, the Svanni, whose complete subjugation dates back no farther it may be said than 1876, although they made a formal submission in 1833.
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