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Geography classified; a systematic manual of mathematical, physical, and political geography. with geographical, etymological, and historical notes. For the use of teachers and upper forms in schools - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...mercantile marine embraces only 2,522 vessels, in addition to a few steamers. Language.--More than five-sixths of the people of Russia belong to the Slavonic race. The following are its principal languages:--1. The Russ (including the four following dialects: a. Russian proper, the literary language of the empire, spoken in the centre and north; i. Little or Malo Russian, in some of the southern provinces; «. White or Polish Russian, by the common people in parts of Lithuania and the Ukraine; and d. Rwsniak, in Volhynia, &c.); 2. The Polish, which, to a foreigner, appears more repulsive than any other Slavonic tongue; 3. The Lithuanian, spoken by the peasantry of Wilna, Grodno, Minsk, and Smolensk, truer to its original than any other of the Slavonic branches; 4. The Lettish or Livonian, predominant in Courland and Livonia; and 5. The Wallachian or Daco-Roman, employed in Wallachia, Moldavia, and Bessarabia. This last, however, is more Grseco-Latin than Slavonic. Religion.--The great majority of the population--the Slavonians and especially the Russians--belong to the Greek Church, the established form of worship, of which the emperor is the head. The people of Finland, and the districts adjacent, are Lutherans; while the majority of the Poles embrace the Roman Catholic religion. There are only 3,500,000 Protestants in the whole empire. The Tahtars, and most of the Circassians, are Mohammedans; the Calmucks, idolaters of the Buddhist type; and many of the Samoiedes and Lapps, Fetishists or Shamans. Education.--Public education, as it regards the great mass of the people, can hardly be said to have any existence. The serfs, of whom there are fortytwo millions, are universally buried in ignorance. In 1824, only one in every 300 attended school, which...
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