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Most of the towns consist of a central nucleus, around which stretch the straggling 

 slohodas, or suburbs of carpenters, masons, and other artisans, drawn originally from 

 the agricultural element. Some show a great disparity of the sexes, and although 

 the females are here as elsewhere, on the whole, in a majority, there has been such 

 au influx of craftsmen and others into St. Petersburg and Moscow, that here the 



Fig. 243.— KÙKSK. 



Scale 1 : 170,000. 



3 Milso. 



males exceed the females by one-fifth, and even one-fourth. The same is the case 

 in the steppe districts, to which numerous colonists are constantly migi*ating, while 

 the proportion is reversed in the governments whence the settlers are drawn.* 



Proportion of the sexes : — 



Mean for Russia 

 Yaroslav (extreme) 

 St. Petersburg (extreme) 

 Bessarabia and Taurid-i , 



102-7 females per 100 males. 

 79-6 



