so Mr, W. S. L. Szyrma on the Relation of the 
Servian, Illyrian, Bulgarian, &c., &c., and the vast extent througlioat 
•which they are spoken, even among Non-Slavonian nations. 
Eussian, for instance, is the language of nearly all the population 
of the Czar's European domains, where Polish is not spoken. This 
alone would make ahove 60,000,000 speaking Slavonic. Under 
Prussia there are supposed to he about 7 millions Slavonians, but 
these may be partly Germanized. Under Austria 25 millions have 
been calculated. * Under Turkey 5 millions. But under Kussia, 
tribes of every race, Uralian, Mongolic, and Semetic have, with the 
docility usual to savages, adopted their conqueror's tongue. 
If we regard the territorial limits of the language, we find Slavon- 
ian is spoken, more or less, from Kamchatka and Behring's Straits on 
the East to the Baltic, the Oder, and the Erz Mountains of Saxony 
on the West. From the White and Arctic Seas to the Adriatic and 
Balkans in Europe, the Caucasus and Altais in Asia. 
The true Slavonians are usually divided into 4 Great Nationalities, 
each using their distinctive dialect, the Kuss, Lech, Czech, and 
Serb; or, as we should call them, Ruthenian, Polish, Bohemian, and 
Servian, besides minor tribes, as Slovacks, Illyrians, Dalmatians, 
Bosnians, Bulgarians. Of these Nationalities the Ruthenian and 
Polish are the most important. Each was anciently divided into 5 
tribes. The Ruthenians inhabiting the Great and Little, Black, 
White, and Red Russias. The Poles inhabiting Great and Little 
Poland, Mazovia, Kuyavia, and Silesia. The latter tribe has been 
mostly Germanized, 
* Narodowosc. Paris, 1841. I am inclined to think this calculation 
rather exaggerated, though not to any material extent. If you count only 
20,000,000, more or less, understanding Slavonian out of Russia, we should 
still have 80 millions in Europe alone. 
The numbers given are : 
Inl83G. P/'2/55i«. Pomerania, E. Prussia, Posen, Middle and 
Lower Silesia 6,840,000 
Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, Slavonia, Dalmatia, Illyria, 
Croatia, Hungary, Transylvania, Gallicia, Upper 
Silesia 25,796,000 
Turkey, Bosnia, Crotia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Servia, 
Wallachia, Moldavia 486,000 
Saxony, 260,000 
