a circle of the Russian province Jaroslav, between 37° 33' and 38° 46' east longitude, and 57° 25' and 58° 4' north latitude. It contains one city, and 701 villages, distributed into fifty-five parishes. It is watered by the rivers Wolga, Karasitschina, Kadka, and Sudka, and is moderately fertile, maintaining a population of 71,390 persons. The capital, of the same name, is situated on the Wolga, 450 miles from St Petersburg, with some little trade by that river. Long. 56° 5' E. Lat. 57° 47' N.

MYSSIA, a country of Asia Minor, generally divided into Major and Minor. Myssia Minor was bounded on the north and west by the Propontis and Bithynia, and on the southern and eastern borders by Phrygia. Myssia Major had Æolia on the south, the Ægean Sea on the west, and Phrygia on the north and east. Its chief cities were Cyzicum and Lampsacus. The inhabitants were once very warlike; but they greatly degenerated, and the words Myssium ultimum were emphatically used to signify a person of no merit. The ancients generally hired them to attend their funerals as mourners, because they were naturally melancholy and inclined to shed tears. They were once governed by monarchs. They are supposed to be descended from the Myssians of Europe, a nation who inhabited that part of Thrace which was situated between Mount Haemus and the Danube.