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 18 the A ;.. m I about 50 IVrm. I SIBERIA the Obi, and the Irtish to Tobolsk i i ...-.niTuvam'M nf SIBYL entire country was effected in about 80 years. The Amoor region was soon after visited by a Pole and some other exiles escaped from Ye- niseisk, who built a small fort on the river; but having quarrelled with the Tunguses, they offered the conquest to the emperor of Russia, trade has appeared to oe w ; "^ '~{ ^nd begged forgiveness for their former ot- by the coast of China to^Aday evsk and an S^ ti^Tunguses about the same, time thence up the Amoor b. * ", jjj ! app iied to the emperor of China for assistance. winter it is iuiuwn>~ ~j --r But recently the tendency of the at stated penous. AO uivou ""fr* TV, , are at Obdorsk near the mouth of the Obi, Tu- rokhansk on the Yenisei, Ustyansk on the Ya- na, Ostrovnoye on a tributary of the Kolyma, Tiumen on a W. tributary of the Irtish, and Ir- bit in the E. part of the government of Perm. During the summer steamers ply on all the large streams of central and southern Siberia and on Lake Baikal, so that there is less than 1 000 ra. of wagon transit between St. Peters- burg and the mouth of the Amoor. A great railway across the continent is projected, to connect European Russia with Peking. The proposed western terminus is Yekaterinburg on the E. slope of the Ural mountains, whence the line will pass through Shadrinsk, Omsk, Tomsk, and Krasnoyarsk to Irkutsk. Siberia is divided into two military circumscriptions, East and West Siberia : the former comprises the governments of Irkutsk and Yeniseisk, and the provinces of Transbaikal, Yakutsk, Araoor, and the Littoral; the latter the gov- ernments of Tobolsk and Tomsk, together with .irghiz territories of central Asia. The respective capitals are Irkutsk and Omsk. Each of these two great divisions, which were I tonka, 30 m. long, is in this county. _ A i -ir*/Cf 1 - II .. . 1, , .+ t. , . . - iT. 1 Q'TA vrrr*rk OQ'T *7(( by a treaty concluded at Peking in 1689. A second treaty was made in 1727, confirming the former and confining commercial intercourse to Kiakhta and Maimatchm. The Amoor coun- try was finally ceded to Russia in 1858, and in 1860 a treaty was concluded by which the whole line of the frontier was thrown open for traffic. The transportation of criminals to. Siberia was begun by Peter the Great in 1710. A well organized insurrection of Polish exiles was promptly suppressed in 1866. In 1871 the Russians took possession of the whole of the island of Saghalien, which by a treaty conclu- ded in 1867 had been divided between Russia and Japan, and in 1875 the Japanese govern- ment resigned all claims to it. See Atkin- son, "Oriental and Western Siberia" (Lon- don, 1858); Pumpelly, "Across America and Asia" (New York, 1870); and Kennan, "Tent Life in Siberia" (New York, 1870). SIBLEY, a S. county of Minnesota, bounded S. E. by the Minnesota river ; area, about 500 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 6,725. The surface is undulating and the soil fertile. Lake Minne- The chief formed on the present basis in 1865, has a mil- itary governor general, who is also command- er-in-chief of the troops, and has control of all affairs, civil and military. Each of the governments and provinces has also a civil governor, subordinate to the governor general, who is assisted by a council of regency. A vice governor fills his place in case of his ab- sence or sickness. Genghis Khan conquered a part of Siberia, and his successors reduced untry lying on both sides of the Irtish. About 1580 the Russian family of Stroganoff, to whom the czar had granted lands on both aides of the Ural mountains, applied to a Cos- sack chief, Yi-rmak Timofeyeff, for assistance productions in 1870 were 237,706 bushels of wheat, 142,060 of Indian corn, 221,416 of oats, 34,545 of barley, 32,659 tons of hay, 19,600 Ibs. of wool, and 310,217 of butter. There were 1,726 horses, 3,531 milch cows, 5,952 other cattle, 3,666 sheep, and 3,990 swine. Capital, Henderson. SIBOIR, Marie Dominique Angnste, a French pre- late, born at St. Paul-Trois-Chateaux, Drome, April 4, 1792, assassinated in Paris, Jan. 3, 1857. He was educated at Avignon and at Paris, was for a time professor in the semi- nary of St. Nicholas du Chardonnet in Paris, was next vicar to the parish of St. Sulpice and to the chapel of the missions etrangeres, in 1822 against the khan Kutchum, who ruled the | became canon of the church of Nimes, in 1838 y on the Tobol and Irtish rivers. Yer- mak invaded the country and made extensive conquests. Other adventurers followed up his successes, which resulted in 1587 in the sub- jection to Russia of the khanate of Sibir (called after a town of that name, whence the name 0. Tobolsk, Tiumen, Pelymsk, and Be- reiov were soon after founded and settled by < ans. In 1604 Tomsk was founded, and >*sacks, pushing eastward, founded suc- cessively Kuznetek, Yeniseisk, Irkutsk, Selen- ginsk, and Nertchinsk, and at last readied the shores of Behring strait. The conquest of the vicar general of that diocese, in 1840 bishop of Digne, in 1848 archbishop of Paris, as suc- cessor to Affre, and in 1852 a senator. In 1857, while opening the yearly nine days 1 de- votion in honor of St. Genevieve in the church of St. Etienne du Mont, he was stabbed to the heart by a priest named Verger, whom he had recently suspended. He was distinguished for religious and charitable activity, and published Institutions diocesain* (2 vols., 1845). SIBYL (Gr. cr</3vAAa), a name applied to sev- eral women reputed prophetic in the ancient mythical period. Some authors say there