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oats, and barley are grown. The most important products are, however, timber, deals, potash, pitch, tar, and resin; all of which articles are extensively exported. Next to agrieulture, stock-breeding and fishing form the ‘leading occupations of the inhabitants. The Finns were pagans, living under their own independent kings, till the 12th century, about the middle of which the country was conquered by the Swedes, who introduced Christianity. The “a of Bal sen was conquered and annexed to Ru ia by Peter the Great in 1721; the remainder of the country became part of the Ru ian dominions (also by conquest) in 1809. Owing to the evident determination of the Ru ian government to abolish the autonomy of Finland, there was a large emigration to America. Famine in 1902-8 was greatly relieved by American benevolence. Fol- Fis SS lowing the — and internal troubles the Czar was compelled to restore and confirm Finland’s autonomous liberty, Nov. 4, 1905. 4 Finland, Gulf of, one of the great ~- arms of the Baltic Sea, extending E. and 40’, and between lon. 23° and 30° 107 EF. It is 260 miles long by 25 to 90 * miles wide, Finlay, George, an English historian; born in 1799; died in 1875. ‘* Greece under the Romans, B. c. D. 717” is his magnum opus.