Mr. Bell on the growing power of Russia. 333 
Besides these redoubts situated on the long line of the new fron- 
tier, Russia has erected three other forts in the south of the newly 
acquired territory, namely, Alexandrovskaya on the Noura, Saint 
Nicholas, to the north of the Lake Karaya, and Saint Constantine, 
at the foot of the mountain Yakhchi-yanghis-tau. These forts pro- 
tect the rich mines of copper and lead which they have begun to: 
work. These are the following: those of Anniuskoi and Saint 
Constantine, in the vicinity of the Lake Air-tau ; Gouwrievskoi, on 
the borders of the Ischim ; those of Baganou and Araktcheévskoi, 
on the banks of the Tersekan ; those of Mys-tau and Alexandrov- 
skot, in the Ulu-Tau mountains ; those of Kart and Blagodainy, 
on the Noura ; those of Michaelovskoi, Nitchayannost, Mariinskot, 
Wolkonskoi, and Sielisavitinskoi, in the mountains which give birth 
to the streams which form the Yar-yakhchi; finally, the copper 
mines of the mountain Ken-Koslan, and those of Kambaou, which 
appear at a small distance to the south-west of Yamishchewskaya, 
on the Irtisch. 
By this new extension, (of the frontier line,) adds Klaproth, 
(and he seemis to chuckle at the thought,) the Russian frontier is not 
more distant than 280 leagues (840 miles) from Atteck on the In- 
dus, and it is much less from Bokhara. 
A part of the Kirguis, inclosed by this new demarcation of the 
Russian territory, was formerly dependent on China, that is to say, 
that the Kirguis sent every three years presents to Pekiu, in ex- 
change for which the Chinese government gave them returns a hun- 
dred times more valuable. But these Kirguis were very restless 
and troublesome neighbours. It is therefore probable that the Chi- 
nese are perfectly content to see them ranged under the sway of 
the Russians, who are able to keep them in awe. 
We may justly be permitted to presume that the Russians will 
not stop at this new frontier or stand still. The facility with which 
they have seized one part of Toorkistaun, commonly denominated 
independent, will stimulate them a-fresh to occupy, after the same 
manner, the whole country of the Kirguis, as far as the frontier of 
the khanate of Bokhara. This they will accomplish with so much 
the more facility, because such aggrandizements are almost conti- 
nually unknown to, and never contested by the powers of Europe. 
Once established in the country of the Kirguis, which is not 
wholly an arid waste, and which contains very fertile lands and 
meadows, dense forests and mountains, the Russians will be ena- 
bled to send their military colonies, establish their founderies nigh 
the cepper mines, prepare all the military train necessary for a 
eampaign, and complete their cavalry with the excellent horses of 
Middle Asia, to obtain which M. Moorcroft was dispatched to 
Bokhara by the English government of India. ‘They will also be 
able to make commodious roads, and in a few years to prepare for 
farther acquisitions. These will probably commence by the conquests 
of Kekaund, Samarcand, Bokhara, and the other petty khanates 
which separate Russia from Persia and India. Thus ends the ez- 
