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PLATE LXV.
A MONGOLE WOMAN.
U N D E R the name ' Mongol e' is compreliended whatever has remained
of that nation, since the revohition in 1308, by which it was deprived
of the empire of China; and the people, now properly called Mongoles,
are for the greater part subject to the Mandshure princes, who at
this time are in possession of the Chinese throne. Since the destruction
of the Soongarian power, and the re-establishment of peace in ¡Mongolia,
the Mongoles have spread from the frontiers of Chinese Dauria, and
the rivers Naoun and Scharamourin, as far as the deserts of Soongar
and Tangut; so that it is difficult, at this time, to establish any
marked dilTerence between the yellow Mongoles (scbarra-Mongo/eJ,
who have long been subjects of China, and the Mongoles of Kalkas,
who are under the dominion of independent Rhans, descended from
the family of Tchinguis.
In consequence of the last Border Treaty, concluded between the
Russians and Chinese, a part of the Mongoles, with the northern
Bratzkiye, have become subject to Russia, and have established themselves
in the eastern part of Siberia, in the government of Irkutsk, in
the south of the district of Selinguinsk, in the environs of Selinga, ia
the southern part of Chilok, and on the borders of the rivers Temnik,
Dshida, and Tschikoi.
In their physical construction tlie Mongoles approach more to the
Kalmuks than to the Bratzkiye ; but in manners and rural economy
they so perfectly resemble the latter, already noticed under their
proper descriptions, tliat it would be superflucus to make any further
obser\ations.
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