a circle in the Russian government of Bialystock, on the southernmost division of it. It is about 1100 square miles, or 704,000 acres in extent, and contains six cities, one market-town, and 112 villages, with, in 1797, 49,651 inhabitants, who are estimated to have increased in 1827 to 68,000. The chief place of the same name, is situated on the river Bug, and contains a college, in which are 250 noble students, a Franciscan and a Benedictine monastery, and four churches. Long. 22. 38. E. Lat. 51. 4. N.