ooo Mr. Bell on the growing power of Russia. 
and submit themselves to the Russian sceptre, and allow the Rus- 
sians to build forts in their territories. The khans were easily 
brought to negociate with the Russian agents, when they saw 
their country on the western side surrounded with a line of new 
military posts, in order to keep them in awe, and prevent them from 
changing their engagements. That line is guarded with Cossacks 
and other troops. But the cession was at length accomplished 
with the consent of the khans, and a new frontier line has been 
marked out, as the southern limit of demarcation on that side of 
Asiatic Russia. 
In the second number of the Nouveau Journal Asiatique for 
1828, p. 144147, is a paper by Klaproth, read to the Asiatic So- 
ciety of Paris, on this subject, with an account of the new Russian 
frontier on the side of the Kirguis. I have the honour, says he, 
to present you a map of Asiatic Russia, on which are marked, by 
different colours, the new frontiers of Asiatic Russia. The green 
line marks the old limit of Siberia, from the Oural mountains to 
the borders of the Eastern Ocean. The frontiers of the Chinese 
domination are marked yellow. The country which lies before 
you, marked red on one side, contains a tract equal in extent to 
France and Scotland, (220,000 British square miles.) This, says 
he, is precisely the country which Russia has acquired unknown to 
Kurope, and that at the very same moment when this latter part 
of the world was occupied in exactly maintaining the political sta- 
tus quo fixed by the late treaty. Klaproth then proceeds to illus- 
trate the new limits marked red in the map, and having mentioned 
that a line of military posts surrounded the step of the Kirguis, 
commencing on the western side, he adds, But as these posts are 
not at all indicated in our maps, I shall here give you a short de- 
scription of this limit. 
It commences at the fort of Zwerinogolovska, follows the left 
bank of the Abouya, and then goes to the Lake of Denghis-koul. 
From that it directs itself to the south, then to the south-east, by 
the redoubts of Avlikouls-kaya, Tchiyanli, Danabika, Gipsovot, 
Naourvoumskaya, Kabanet, Kaikoupa, Sari-tourai or Tchernaya, 
Moukourkoupa, Alabastrovoi, and Yalaminskoi, newly constructed. 
This last redoubt is situated on the right bank of the Yalama- 
tourgai, which flows to the west, and then unites itself with the 
Tourgai. The new frontier directs itself from that point to the 
south-east, and reaches the mountains, which it follows for a con- 
siderable extent. Farther on, the line surrounds the upper part 
of the Yar-Yakhchi and its tributary streams ; continues to file off 
to the south-east, as far as the mountains of Khaltai and the sources 
of the Achbouta ; directs itself to the south, towards the great lake 
Balkhasch, which it cuts off towards the south ; passes to the south 
the lakes Alaktow-goul, and Ala-goul ; turns to the north towards 
the Saisan Lake, which it touches almost on its western point, and 
ends at the north-east, over against the junction of the Bouktarma 
with the Ivtisch, on the left bank, which made, in former days, the 
frontier between Siberia and the country of the Kirguis. 
