. The earth and its inhabitants .. . E of G. ^— 2Ô Jliles. The Northern Stefpes.—Ural Basin. (Government op Orenburg—Army of the Ural.) The commercial centre of the two rivers Uzen, between the Volga and the Ural, is Noi'o- ZTzcnsh, surrounded by tobacco plantations. But the great market of East Russia, and the fortunate rival of Astrakhan, is Orenburg, at the junction of the Ural and Sakmara. It dates only from 1742, although in 1735 the Russians had raised a fortress of this name at the confluence of the Ural and Ora, in order to command the Kirghiz and Bashkirs. But the foundation of this

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