438 Distribution of the Inhahilanls of Russia. [June, 



found in Dr. Percival's Essays, Medical, Philosophical, and Et- 

 perimental, at page 37^, vol. ist, 4th edition; where the caseSf 

 a female is narrated in liis easy, natural, and unaffected style. la 

 the Medical Facts and Observations, vol. 6, page :^12, the case of 

 a female is well delineated ; besides these, the ci^se of a r,i.n and 

 of a monk, are to be found in the Histoire de I'Academie Royale 

 des Sciences, Annees 1715 and 1722. But in none of these cases 

 is any mention made of the salt and urinous taste of the liquid 

 which \vas vomited, as in the case of Ralph Cooper: and here the 

 theory of " tlie regurgitation of fluids in the absorbent vessels," 

 which was broached by that siiperior youth, Mr. Charles Darwin, 

 naturally presents itself to the mind: of his theory, and the ex- 

 periment made upon his friend, an ample account is to be found in 

 that excellent practical work the Medical Commentaries, vol. 7, 

 page 193. Having swelled this paper far beyond what 1 intended, 

 I shall for the present lay down my pen. 



Article VII. 



On the Distribution of the Inhabitants of Russia. 

 By C, T. Hermann.* 



Part I. 



Distribution according to the Nations. 



The total population of a country makes us acquainted with its 

 physical force ; the distribution of that population gives us its moral 

 force. 



Those people who are sprung from the same origin usually speak 

 the same lar£;ua^"e, and have the same manners and customs. They 

 understand oi e another, resemble one another, and consider them- 

 selves as members of the same family. The more savage or bar- 

 barous a people is, the more does this difference influence its con- 

 duct towards strangers. It is very difiicult for Government to efface 

 these characteristic distinctions, in order to establish the necessary 

 union in a political body composed of different nations. The pro- 

 gress of knowledge certainly diminishes the effect of these national 

 distinctions. Hence it happens that the higher ranks in all nations 

 have a consIdcral)Ie resemblance to each other : but knowledge is 

 not easily diffused among the lower orders of society. The most 

 enlightened governments have endeavoured to destroy these distinc- 

 tions Russia has at all times followed this great principle'. The 

 new divisions of France had the same object. England has at last 

 admitted the Scotch and the Irish into her Parliament. 



* TranslHted from the Memoirs of tlie Imperial Academy of Sciences of S(. 

 Petenburgii, vol. iii. Piiblislicd ii) 1810. 



