Ural

(oo'ral,) or OURAL, a river of the Ru ian empire, rising in the govt. Minsk, and, after forming the S.E. boundary of the mainland of Europe, emptying into the Caspian Sea, 180 m. N.E. of Astrakhan, and a S. and S.W. course of 1,800 m.- URAL MOUNTAINS, (THE,) an extensive chain reaching from the Sea of Kara, in the Arctic Ocean, nearly as far as the Sea of Aral, bet. N. Lat. 28-690, and thus constituting the greater part of the frontier-line bet. European and Asiatic Ru ia. Its maximum width is 5 m.; its highest peak has an altitude of 6,400 ft., and it abounds in mineral wealth gold, copper, and iron. [s. 923]