BUG

bug, the name of two rivers of europe. (1) a stream of european russia, distinguished sometimes as the southern bug, which rises in the s. of the government of volhynia, and flows generally s.e. through the governments of podolia and kherson, and after picking up the ingul from the left at nikolayev, enters the _liman_ or lagoon into which the dnieper also discharges. its length is 470 m. its upper part is beset with rapids, and its lower is of little value for navigation on account of the numerous sandbanks and blocks of rock which choke its bed. (2) a river distinguished as the western don, which rises in the e. of austrian galicia between tarnopol and brody, and flows n.n.w. as far as brest-litovsk, separating the polish provinces of lublin and siedlce from the russian governments of volhynia and grodno; it then swings away almost due w., between the provinces of warsaw and lomza, and joins the vistula, 23 m. below the city of warsaw. length, 470 m. it is navigable from brest-litovsk downwards.