Esthonia, one of the Russian Baltic provinces, has a northern foreshore on the Gulf of Finland, and on the W. abuts on the Baltic; what of the country that is free from forest and marsh is chiefly agricultural, but fishing is also an important industry; the people are a composite of Finns and immigrant Germans, with latterly Russians superimposed.
Population (circa 1900) given as 393,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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