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must be added the ever-present Jews and the gipsies, who pitch their tents 

 in the shade of the forests. The inhabitants profess eight different religions, 

 the Greek Catholics being by far the most numerous. 



The Jews increase much more rapidly than the other nations, not only in 

 Bukovina and in Galicia, but throughout the Austro-Hungarian Empire. 

 Nearly one-half the Austrian Jews are massed in Galicia, and, as the Jews are 

 numerous also in the Polish and Russian border districts, this portion of Central 

 Europe is far better entitled to be called the land of the Jews than Palestine 

 or any other country whatever. 



It will readily be understood that this multitude of Jews, having no attach- 



Fig. 75. — The Jem's in Hungary and Galicia. 

 Scale 1 : 6,375,000. 



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ment to the soil or its indigenous population, and always jDrofessing the opinions 

 of the dominant race, must prove a serious obstacle to the political development 

 of the Poles or Ruthenians. In Lemberg, Cracow, and other large towns the 

 Jews constitute one-third of the population ; in Brody and Drochobicz they 

 are in the majority ; and there is not a town but the Jew, in his gaberdine, 

 high boots, and broad-brimmed hat, with curls descending to the shoulders, is 

 frequently met with. He almost monopolizes the commerce of the country. One 

 sect of Jews, however, that of the Karaites, supposed to be of Tartar origin, though 



