PODOLIA, a province of Russian Poland, bounded on the north and north-east, by Volhnia and Kiew; on the south-east, by Cherson, and on the south-west and west, by Moldavia and Buckovina. The principal rivers are the Dneister and the Bug. This province is extremely fertile in grain, great quantities of which are conveyed by the rivers to Odessa, and thence shipped to the Mediterranean. It also abounds in cattle. The chief town is Kaminick. In 1815, this province contained 1,181,200 inhabitants upon an area of 14,700 square miles.