the other, and on the final tendency of the negotiations, either
to enlarge or to confine the preponderance of Ruffia in the fcale
of the North.
A P P ENDIX .
A P P E N D I X .
N° I.
Geographical Divifion of the Ruffian Empire into Governments,
Provinces, and DiJiriSts.
AS the new divifion of Ruffia into governments, provinces,
and diftri&s, has totally altered the geography of that vail
empire; and as no. accurate account of the general divifion yet
given to the public has fallen under my obfervation, I ihall here
fubjoin a lift communicated to me ill February, 1785, from
undoubted authority.
In comparing this lift of governments with that given in p. 224
of this work, the reader will find a difference in the number and
names of the governments; for inftance, this lift enumerates 41,
the other 40 governments. This lift mentions the governments
of Archangel, Catherinenilaf, Olonetz.and Caucafus; and the other
thofe of Aftracan, Azof, and New Ruffia. But this difference may,
eafily be reconciled, by confidering that the former lift was'made
in 1782, the latter in 1784, when feveral alterations had taken
place in the names of the governments, particularly that Olonetz