a circle in Russian Finland, on the sea-shore, of the vast extent of 20,608 square miles, containing only one town and 4423 farms, with 144,500 inhabitants. The capital, of the same name, is a town in a peninsula on the Lake of Kallavesi, containing 160 houses, and 920 inhabitants. Long. 27. 24. 55. E. Lat. 62. 53. 43. N.