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tained to such a pitch, tliat every portion of the 
be ransacked for their gratification.’’ 
THE CASPIAN SEA. 
This large body of water, improperly called a iV' 
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neither ebbs nor flows, nor has any visible cori”'' jjp 
the ocean, is tire greatest lake in the eastern qP''’. 
It is bounded on the north by the country of ’!'p.fsi.'i) 
Tartars, on the east by rsuebaria and a part ot * 
tne south by another part of Persia, and on the 
Persia and Circassia. Its length, from north ^ 
about four h.undred miles, and its greatest 
east to west, three hundred. Within the last h^/ 
the water has risen so considerably, tliat it has 
inroads on the Russian side, both to the east ^ 
the Volga, and has rendered the adjacent cou 
tremely marshy. 
AFRICAN LAKES. 
^ ^ ^ 
The only Lake deserving of notice in t’nis 
ouarter of tire globe, is that of Dambia, in UpP'^f ' 
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In describing the Nile, it has already been meiR“ 
rt is considered as the source of that interesting 
lake contains twenty-one islands, several of '''■ “be ^'p 
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fertile, more particularly the largest, called Tzan3> jf, ^ 
likewise bestowed by the natives on the 
greatest extent, in a north-east and south-west dn 
about ninety miles, and its breadth thirty-six. 
EUROPEAN LAKES. 
These Lakes, although much inferior in size to 
those above described, merit, a brief description o» ^ 
of tlie phenomena they occasionally present. pi)*'.}, 
Lake Lagoda, in the western part of 
empire, lies between the gulf of Finland and 
and is one hundred and fifty miles in length, 
breadth. It is the largest lake in Europe ; gtoPw 
quicksands, which are constantly moved from 
by the frequent storms to which it is subject, that 
gerous shelves are formed along its course. 't 
the Great to cause a canal, nearly seventy 
length, seventy feet in breadth, and about 
