FOREIGN COLONIES IN UKRANIA. 



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order to work them in common and share the profits, and on the tobacco plantations 

 young girls work together at weeding, collecting, and preparing the leaves for sale, 

 receiving half the produce, which they always share equally. 



Other Ethnical Elements in Ukranta. 



Within the Little Russian domain there are at least twenty other peoples 

 differing in origin, customs, and speech. The Great Russians are scattered in 



Fiff. 149.^EuMA>riAN of Podolia. 



isolated colonies in the towns and country ; Poles are found in all the districts 

 forming part of the Polish state in the eighteenth century ; in the south Tatar 

 communities are intermingled with the Christians; and multitudes of Jews, besides 

 Karaites, Armenians, Greeks, and Gipsies, are met everywhere, while the 

 Rumanians occupy a compact area of about 10,000 square miles on the south-west 

 frontier. To all these must be added the Germans specially invited, at the end of 

 the last century, to settle in the waste lands now known as " New Russia." In 

 1789 they founded several villages in Yekaterinoslav, west of the Dnieper rapids, 



