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2d The Slavonians The second principal tribe of Germany the Slavonians are settled on the eastern districts of the Elbe and amount to about 5,040,000 individuals They are divided into several tribes each speaking its own dialect The principal are 1st the SlauxtiAes to whom belong the Hannacks and Hosacks they are settled in Moravia and amount to about 1,150,000 2rf The Tscheches in Bohemia and Moravia amounting to 2,200,000 heads 3d The Poles in Silesia and Auschwitz amounting to 820,000 Ш the Wendet and Sorabes settled partly iu IHyria partly in the kingdom of Saxony in Brandenburg and in the Silesian districts of Liegnitz and amounting to 790,000 4th Tbe Casubes in Pomerania estimated at 56,000 5th the Usckoc&s with some Croats Raizes &c in Illyria amounting to above 22,000 The Slavonians are far behind the Germans in civilization they are however an industrious and laborious A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific Or A Physical, Political, and Statistical Account of the World and Its Various Divisions Author: James Bell, Adrien Balbis
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