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Greek Sectarians, 1250 Mennonites, 550 Moravian ]5rethren, 350 Zigeuni, 

 and 300 Mohammedans. With the capital Warsaw (pop. 165,000) Poland 

 is divided into five governments : Warsaw, Radom, Lublin, Augustowo, and 

 Plock. 



Russia in Asia embraces : 1. Siberia, with three millions of inhabitants, 

 divided into the general governments of West Siberia and East Siberia, of 

 which again the former is divided into the governments of Tobolsk, Omsk, 

 and Tomsk ; the latter into those of Jeniseisk, Irkutsk, lakutsk, Ochotsk, 

 and the district of Kamtschatka. 2. Caucasus, consisting of the govern- 

 ment of Grusia-Imereti, and the province of Caspia, or the former province 

 of Georgia (or Grusia), Imiretia, Armenia, Tscherkessia, Schwirwan, and 

 Daghestan. In a great part of these provinces, the Russian government is 

 entirely repudiated. 



Russia in America contains a population of probably sixty thousand 

 souls. 



11. Turkey (Plate 26). 



The Turkish or Ottoman Empire is included between the parallels of 

 31° and 49° north latitude, and is divided into European and Asiatic 

 Turkey ; the former, w^th an area of about 144,000 square geographical 

 miles, and a population of thirteen millions, the latter with an area 

 of 336,000 square geographical miles, and population of ten millions. 

 Turkey in Europe, a part of the peninsula of Greece, is bounded on the 

 north by Austria and Russia, on the west by Austria, the Adriatic and 

 Ionian seas, on the south by Greece, and on the east by the Archipelago, 

 the Sea of Marmora, and the Black Sea. 



A considerable mountain divides the land into two tolerably equal parts, 

 of which the northern includes Northern Bosnia, Servia, Bulgaria, Walla- 

 chia, and Moldavia ; the southern, Rumelia, Macedonia, Albania, and 

 Thessaly. It bears various names : in the west, where it is parallel to the 

 Adriatic, it is called the Dinarian Alps, then Zamora, Argentara, Perserin, 

 Schardagh, &c. At about the middle of the peninsula, the principal arm, 

 termed Egrisu, divides into two branches, the more northern of which is 

 called the Balkan, and afterwards Eminehdagh, the southern, Despoto 

 Mountain. Towards the south are sent off from Schardagh, the Hellenic 

 Mountains, called Voradagh in the north, and Mezzovo or Pindus in the 

 south. From this pass off, towards the west, the Chimaero or Akrokeraunian 

 Mountains ; towards the east, the Volutza Mountains ; and towards the north, 

 the Livadian Mountains. 



The only river of any importance in Turkey is the Danube. Into it 

 empty from the west, or north, on Turkish territory, the Schyl or Schyll, 

 the Aluta, the Dumbowitza with the Ardsisch, the Jalonitza, the Sereth 

 with the Bystritza, and the Pruth, the latter the boundary to Russia ; to the 

 right, or from the south, the Sau or Save, the Morawa, the Isker, the Wid, 

 and the Jandra. Much smaller rivers, and indeed only coast streams, are ' 

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