A Geographical View of the World Author:Richard Phillips Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Of ike Persona and Dress of the Russians. 33 make sense. There are a good many Swedish words which resemble tlic English very closely, either in their spellin... more »g or pronunciation. So that to a native of Oritaiu, the Swedish language is not attended with much difficulty. RUSSIA, Russia embraces nearly one half of Europe and more than one third ef Asia, extending without interruption from the Baltic sea on the west, to the Pacific ocean on the ???(, and from the Frozen ocean on tiie north to the Chinese empire, Tartary, Persia aud Turkey on the south. It lies between 39 JO'and 76 N. lat. and between 18 and 192" E. Ion. The area is estimated at 7,595,000 square miles, being one ninth part of the surface of the globe. Russia Ju Europe is bounded N. bv the Frozen ocean, E. by Russia in Asia; S. by the sea of Azoph and (lie Black sea ; Vf. by Turkey, the Austrian dominions, the Prussian dominions, the Baltic sea, Sweden and Norway. It contains I,?? 1,512 square miles. Population 41,773,000. Pop. ou a square mile ¿2. Of the Personsand Dress of the Russians. ???. Russians are in general hardy, vigorous, and patient of labour. Their complexions differ little from those of the English and Scots, but the women use a sort of rouge to heighten their beauty. Their eye-sight seems to be defective, occasioned probably by the snow which for a great part of the year is continually on the ground. The Russian peasants arc a coarse hardy race, brutally stupid, and of great bodily strength. Their dress consists of ? round hat, or cap, with a high crown, a coarse robe of drugget, or in winter of sheepskin with the wool turned inwards, reaching to the knee, and bound round the waist by a sash ; trowser of thick linen ; a woollen or flannel cloth wrapped round the leg, instead of stocki...« less