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RUSSIA IN EUROPE. 



and in the steppes between the great bend of the river and the Sea of Azov. 

 Most of them come from Swabia, the Palatinate, and Hesse, and in passing through 

 the country the traveller is surprised to meet with numerous villages named after 

 such places as Munich, Stuttgart, Darmstadt, Heidelberg, Carlsruhe, Mannheim, 

 AVorms, or Strasburg. In 1876 the German settlements in the governments of 

 Yekaterinoslav, Kherson, Taurida, and Bessarabia numbered 370, with a total 

 population of over 200,000, all generally in a prosperous state. Yet many, 



Fii?. 150.— Peoportion op Roman Catholics in Volhynia, PonoLiA, and Kiev. 



C.of P 



r- «i I I t 



3,000 to 5,000 

 Catholics. 



5,000 to 10 000 

 Catholics. 



Over 10,000 

 Catholics. 



Under 5 

 per cent. 



5 to 10 

 per cent. 



10 to 20 

 per cent. 



20 to 25 

 per cent. 



40 per cent. 



especially of the Mennonitcs; have fallen into the proletariate class, emigrating in 

 thousands to Brazil and the States in order to avoid military service. Although 

 Eussian is the official language, they still speak German of a more literary type 

 than that of their Swabian forefathers, but otherwise mixed with a number of SUiv 

 words and phrases. 



Other German colonists from Pomerania and East Prussia have settled in 

 Volhynia, and since 1868 about 7,000 Bohemians have purchased lands, mainly 

 along the railway line between Brest and Lutzk. These have been very successful, 



