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IMPRESSIONS OF RUSSIA.
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I.
Alexander von Humboldt, in order to give a
forcible illustration of the immense extent of the Russian
Empire, once compared it to the moon. If you look at
the moon when it is full, you see in the hemisphere of
the satellite which is before you a smaller territory than
that of Russia. About fifty thousand square miles are
still wanting.
No other country has so large an extent of territory
in one division. It is one-sixth part of the area of the
land of our globe, and, although sparsely inhabited, has
a population of about ninety-seven million souls, of
whom sixty-seven millions are of Russian lineage.
So far as inanimate nature is concerned, the situation
of the Russian Empire corresponds to its immense size.
Boundless plains extend from the German frontier far
into Central Asia, and from the extreme north to the
Black Sea. In one of its remote quarters are the
mountains of Caucasus, which rise, from a level lower than that
of the ocean, to a height far above the highest of the
European Alps. In the northwest, it has the largest lakes of
Europe, the Ládoga and the Onega, and in the south,
the Caspian Sea, the largest in the world. Finally, its
rivers are as vast as its plains, its mountains, and its
lakes. The largest of them, the Volga, is the longest
and widest river in Europe. Although it does not
discharge so large a volume of water as might be expected,
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