s of
almost unproductive of food; but forests, or by the severity of the
no ranges of mountains or arid northern winter, yet almost all,
deserts intersect the _vast_ (54, except that part which touches
see above) _extent_, and almost the Arctic snows, is capable of
the whole, excepting that which yielding something for the use
touches the Arctic snows, is of man.
capable of yielding something for
the use of man. The (3) (54) The steppes of the south present
_boundless_ steppes of the south an inexhaustible pasturage to
present (54) _inexhaustible_ those nomad tribes whose numerous
fields of pasturage, and give and incomparable horsemen form the
birth to those nomad tribes, in chief defence of the empire.
whose numerous and incomparable
horsemen the chief defence of the
empire,[39] as of all Oriental
states, (15 _a_) _is to be found_.
The rich arable lands in the heart The rich arable lands in the
_of the_ (54) _empire_ produce an interior produce grain enough to
(2) _incalculable_ quantity of support four times the present
grain, capable not only of population of the empire, and yet
maintaining four times (5) _its_ leave a vast surplus to be
present inhabitants, but affording transported by the Dnieper, the
a vast surplus for exportation by Volga, and their tributaries, into
the Dnieper, the Volga, and their the Euxine or other seas.
tributary streams, (30) which
_form so many_ (54) _natural
outlets_ into the Euxine or other
seas; (44) while the cold and Lastly, the cold bleak plains
shivering plains which stretch stretching towards Archangel and
towards Archangel and the shores towards the shores of the White
of the White Sea are (48) covered Sea, and covered with immense
with immense forests of fir and forests of oak and fir, furnish
oak, furnishing at once (54)[40] materials for shipbuilding and
_inexhaustible_ materials for supplies of fuel that will for
shipbuilding and supplies of fuel. many generations supersede the
(54) _These ample stores_ for many necessity of searching for coal.
generations will supersede the
necessity of searching in the (14
_a_) _bowels_ of the earth for
_the purposes of_ (54) _warmth or
manufacture_.

Formidable as the power of Russia Much as we may dread Russia for
is from the vast extent