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EUSSIA IN EUROPE. 



Jesuits was one of tlie centres of Protestantism in the country, and is still a sort of 

 Jewish capital. The Historical Museum is one of the most important in Russia, 

 and there is a Geographical Society in the place, which, however, has lost the 

 University that succeeded the Jesuits' Academy. It was suppressed after the 



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insurrection of 1832, and most of the books and collections removed to the 

 Universities of St. Petersburg, Kiev, and other high schools. 



North-east of Yilna the St. Petersburg railway passes near the important town 

 of Scenzianij, and in the south-west, near the junction of the Warsaw and 

 Konigsberg line, lies Noriije Trolii, on an islet in tlie middle of a lake, head- 

 quarters of the Karaïtic Jews from the Crimea. Kodio, capital of the province of 

 Like name, stands near the junction of the Niémen with the Neveja and other 

 streams, affording considerable water communication with the coast and the 



