LITHUANIA. 



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Physical Features. 



From the geographical point of view this portion of the empire is fairly well 

 defined, for the Niémen and Dvina basins are separated from the Dnieper by 

 almost impenetrable forest and widespread marshes, while eastwards runs a range 

 of hills forming the watershed between the Niémen, Dnieper, and Dvina affluents. 



Fig. 120. — Lands of the Lithuanians, and of the Principality of Lithuania. 

 According to Dragomanov. Scale 1 : 15,000,000. 



a 



Letto-Lithuanians, I etto-Lithnanians, Lithuania, Lithuania 



Tenth Century. Î ineteenth Century. Fifteenth Century, in the Polish State. 



Old Lithuanian > 

 lands occupied by S 



Germans, 



Poles, 



Little Great White 



Russians, Russians, Russians. 



=___^_« 200 Miles. 



The four provinces (Kovno, Vilna, Grodno, and Vitebsk) have an area of 64,778 

 square miles, with a population (1876) of 4,446,000, or about 69 to the square 

 mile. Like Poland, they are cut off from the sea by a narrow strip on the Baltic 

 connectins: Kurland with Prussia. 



