a city of European Russia, in the province of Moscow and government of Twer. It is the capital of a circle of the same name, which comprehends forty-eight parishes, in which are 483 villages, with 78,800 inhabitants. The city is 334 miles from St Petersburg, stands on the river Twerza, and contains twenty-three churches, a large bazaar, and 1850 houses, with 16,400 inhabitants, who are distinguished by the excellence of the leather which they fabricate, and by their taste in embroidery of boots and slippers with gold and silver thread from the markets of Turkey. They have also much trade in hemp and flax. Long. 34. 58. 10. E. Lat. 57. 2. 9. N.

TORTOLA, the principal of the Virgin Islands, is situated in long. 64° 39' west, and lat. 18° 20' north. It is about twelve miles long from east to west, and on an average four miles wide. It consists of one mountain mass, running along the middle of the island in abrupt and irregular forms, which, on the west side of the island, rise above 1500 feet. The shores are indented with bays, harbours, and creeks, affording shelter and anchorage to a great extent of shipping. A great part of the interior consists of large tracts of waste land. Along the shore are a few tracts of flat ground, but the soil is thin and impoverished. The population amounted in 1835 to 7731. In 1836 the value of the exports was L23,129, of which L21,213 was for sugar and molasses. The imports were L15,225, consisting chiefly of corn and British manufactures.