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"^kes^Eitfent>--~Bourtdaries-.—Original Population.—Prbgrejfive Geography.■
j # Hiftorical Epochs and Antiquities. *
THE vulgar name of Tart ary, <# 'more properly Tatary, was ori- Nahss,
ginally’;exten3ed^OTe;r the vaft regions lying TihjSt^Gl^na,
and the Ar^ic ocean.;, and, from the BJaek Sga; in. the ,i?w.e|f,. to, the.ut-•
moft bounds of north, eafterh ir\: ,A|ia., g As' more precife
knowledge has arifen the northern part has acquired the name of Siberia,
while the fquthern, in fomemaps of recent date, is known by the'
appellations of weftern and eaftern Tartary. Yet even in this, part,
which might more properly, be ftyl'ed Central Ana, the Tatars, properly
fo denominated are few; the moft numerous, tribes being Mongols in
the, weft, and Mandlhurs in the eaft. But the various nations fubjedt to
the Chinefe have not been difcriminated with the .accuracy which Pallas
and other travellers,have employed in illuftrating the origin of thole
fubjedt to Rufiia.