44 Statistical Lata on the Area of Asiatic Russia. [No. 1, 



Brought forward, 914,210 



Governments of Tobolsk, 552,550 



Ditto ditto Tomsk, 335,150 



Ditto ditto Yeniseisk, 972,960 



Ditto ditto Irkutsk with the Baikal, , 279,800 



Region of Yakutsk with Islands of the Arctic Ocean, . . 1,587,050 



Trans-Baikal Eegion, 234,490 



Amoor ditto, 155,650 



Maritime Eegion with Islands of the Pacific, 664,270 



Total .. 5,690,130 



These figures Mr. Venuikof compares with the figures of the 

 Academician K e p p e n, and with those given in the " Almanack de 

 Grotha" for 1864, and he is confident that the results of his more recent 

 computations are more correct than either of those with which he com- 

 pares them, but more especially as regards the general total. He does 

 not pretend that they are strictly accurate ; it is almost impossible 

 that they can be so, while there is not that mass of trigonometrical 

 and astronomical determinations which is so necessary for the con- 

 struction of fresh maps. In this respect, there is a great deficiency as 

 regards the Eussian possessions in Asia ; for instance, as to the Go- 

 vernments of Tobolsk, Yeniseisk, the regions of Yakutsk and of the 

 Siberian Kirghizes. 



Mr. Yenuikof adds the further particulars relative to Asiatic 

 Eussia. 



(1.) On the length of the land, fluvial and mari tine frontiers. 

 (2.) On the areas of such separate lands as peninsulas and islands. 

 (3.) On the dimensions of the principal river basins. 

 (4.) On the plains of large lakes, and 



(5.) On the proportions of lands suitable or otherwise for per- 

 manent settlement. 



1 . Asiatic Eussia is bounded on three sides by Seas : On the 

 North, East and South-West. The length of coast in the Arctic 

 region from the Kara-Bight to Behring's Straits is not less than 

 11,000 versts (7,333 Engish miles). The length of the shores of 

 the Pacific from Cape Chukotsk to the mouth of the Tumen-Ula is 



