a country of the Russian empire, between Asiatic Tartary and Archangel, lying along the sea-coast as far as Siberia. The inhabitants are extremely rude and barbarous. They travel on the snow on sledges, drawn by an animal like a rein-deer, but with the horns of a flag. Their stature is short; their shoulders and faces are broad, with flat broad noses, hanging lips, and staring eyes; their complexion is dark, their hair long and black; and they have very little beard. If they have any religion at all, it is idolatry, though there has been some attempts of late to convert them. Their huts are made of birch bark sewed together, and laid upon stakes set in the ground; at the top is a hole to let out the smoke; the fire is made in the middle, round which they repose in the night.—Their chief employment is hunting and fishing.